A quarrel between husband and wife is like a spring day's drizzle.
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Drizzle
//ˈdɹɪz.l//
Synonyms for "drizzle" (46 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (10)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (13)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (23)
Related word relations
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More general
7 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entrieshas context
4 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
282 translations across 69 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- motreën noun (light rain)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ψεκάς noun (light rain)
- ψεκάζω verb (to rain lightly)
Arabic
4 entries- بَغْشَة noun (light rain)
- رَذَاذ noun (light rain)
- غَبْيَة noun (light rain)
- بَغَشَ verb (to rain lightly)
Asturian
4 entries- orbayu noun (light rain)
- prúa noun (light rain)
- orbayar verb (to rain lightly)
- pruar verb (to rain lightly)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- narın yağmaq verb (to rain lightly)
- çiskinləmək verb (to rain lightly)
- çisələmək verb (to rain lightly)
- çisəmək verb (to rain lightly)
Basque
2 entries- langar noun (light rain)
- sirimiri noun (light rain)
Belarusian
1 entries- імжыць verb (to rain lightly)
Bikol Central
2 entries- tagiti verb (to rain lightly)
- tiniktinik verb (to rain lightly)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ситен дъжд noun (light rain)
- пикая verb (to urinate)
- ръмя verb (to rain lightly)
Catalan
4 entries- plovisqueig noun (light rain)
- plovisqueig noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- roina noun (light rain)
- espurnejar verb (to rain lightly)
Cebuano
1 entries- talisik noun (light rain)
Chichewa
1 entries- mvumbi noun (light rain)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 小雨 noun (light rain)
- 毛毛雨 noun (light rain)
- 細雨 /细雨 noun (light rain)
- 毛毛雨 verb (to rain lightly)
Czech
3 entries- mrholení noun (light rain)
- mžení noun (light rain)
- mrholit verb (to rain lightly)
Danish
4 entries- finregn noun (light rain)
- stænk noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- støvregn noun (light rain)
- pisse verb (to urinate)
Dutch
4 entries- drop noun (light rain)
- dropregen noun (light rain)
- drup noun (light rain)
- drupregen noun (light rain)
Esperanto
3 entries- pluveto noun (light rain)
- pluveti verb (to rain lightly)
- verŝi verb (to pour slowly and evenly)
Faroese
1 entries- ælmuska verb (to rain lightly)
Finnish
4 entries- sadesumu noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- tihku noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- tihkusade noun (light rain)
- vihma noun (light rain)
French
4 entries- bruine noun (light rain)
- crachin noun (light rain)
- flotte noun ((slang) water)
- grainasse noun (light rain)
Galician
4 entries- babuxa noun (light rain)
- barruza noun (light rain)
- bichuchío noun (light rain)
- breca noun (light rain)
Georgian
4 entries- თქორი noun (light rain)
- ნამვა noun (light rain)
- ჟინჟლი noun (light rain)
- ჟინჟღალი noun (light rain)
German
4 entries- Nieselregen noun (light rain)
- Nieselregen noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- Sprühregen noun (light rain)
- Sprühregen noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
Greek
4 entries- ψιλόβροχο noun (light rain)
- ψιχάλες noun (light rain)
- ψιχάλισμα noun (light rain)
- ψιλοβρέχει verb (to rain lightly)
Hanunoo
1 entries- alinyabo noun (light rain)
Hausa
1 entries- yayyafī noun (light rain)
Hebrew
1 entries- טיפטוף noun (light rain)
Hindi
2 entries- फुहार noun (light rain)
- फुहार verb (to rain lightly)
Hungarian
4 entries- szemerkélés noun (light rain)
- szitálás noun (light rain)
- szemerkél verb (to rain lightly)
- szitál verb (to rain lightly)
Icelandic
1 entries- úði noun (light rain)
Ilocano
1 entries- arbis noun (light rain)
Indonesian
2 entries- gerimis noun (light rain)
- gerimis verb (to rain lightly)
Ingrian
1 entries- siije noun (light rain)
Irish
3 entries- brádán noun (light rain)
- ceobhrán noun (light rain)
- bheith ag brádán verb (to rain lightly)
Italian
3 entries- pioggerella noun (light rain)
- pioviggine noun (light rain)
- piovigginare verb (to rain lightly)
Japanese
3 entries- 小雨 noun (light rain)
- 時雨 noun (light rain)
- 霧雨 noun (light rain)
Kapampangan
2 entries- ambun verb (to rain lightly)
- lintik verb (to rain lightly)
Kazakh
1 entries- сіркіреме noun (light rain)
Korean
1 entries- 이슬비 noun (light rain)
Latin
1 entries- pluvia tenuis noun (light rain)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Fisemreen noun (light rain)
- Gefisems noun (light rain)
Macedonian
3 entries- дождец noun (light rain)
- роса noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- роси verb (to rain lightly)
Marathi
1 entries- कणवर्षा noun (light rain)
Māori
4 entries- hāuaua noun (light rain)
- kōwhaowhao noun (light rain)
- tararere noun (light rain)
- tarariki noun (light rain)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tlapayahui verb (to rain lightly)
Norman
2 entries- bllâse noun (light rain)
- crachîn noun (light rain)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- duskregn noun (light rain)
- småregn noun (light rain)
- yr noun (light rain)
- yr noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- duskregn noun (light rain)
- småregn noun (light rain)
- yr noun (light rain)
- yr noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
Occitan
1 entries- plovina noun (light rain)
Persian
2 entries- نَمنَم noun (light rain)
- نَمنَم باریدن verb (to rain lightly)
Pitjantjatjara
1 entries- iili noun (light rain)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Plaudaräajen noun (light rain)
Polish
4 entries- mżawka noun (light rain)
- kropić verb (to rain lightly)
- mżyć verb (to rain lightly)
- sikać verb (to urinate)
Portuguese
4 entries- caruja noun (light rain)
- chuvisco noun (light rain)
- garoa noun (light rain)
- chuviscar verb (to rain lightly)
Romanian
3 entries- burniță noun (light rain)
- bura verb (to rain lightly)
- țârâi verb (to rain lightly)
Russian
4 entries- до́ждик noun (light rain)
- и́зморось noun (light rain)
- и́зморось noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- ме́лкий дождь noun (light rain)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kišica noun (light rain)
- rosulja noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- кишица noun (light rain)
- росуља noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
Slovak
2 entries- mrholiť verb (to rain lightly)
- popŕchať verb (to rain lightly)
Spanish
4 entries- aguacha noun (light rain)
- chilche noun (light rain)
- chilchi noun (light rain)
- cilampa noun (light rain)
Swahili
3 entries- manyunyu noun (light rain)
- rasharasha noun (light rain)
- nyunya verb (to rain lightly)
Swedish
4 entries- duggregn noun (light rain)
- duggregn noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- dugga verb (to rain lightly)
- duggregna verb (to rain lightly)
Tagalog
4 entries- ambon noun (light rain)
- ambon noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- tubig noun ((slang) water)
- ambon verb (to rain lightly)
Tamil
4 entries- தூறல் noun (light rain)
- தூறல் noun ((physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops)
- நீர் noun ((slang) water)
- சிறுநீர் கழி verb (to urinate)
Turkish
4 entries- ahmakıslatan noun (light rain)
- çise noun (light rain)
- çiseleme noun (light rain)
- çisenti noun (light rain)
Ukrainian
3 entries- мжи́чка noun (light rain)
- мря́ка noun (light rain)
- мрячити verb (to rain lightly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phùn verb (to rain lightly)
Walloon
2 entries- brouhiner verb (to rain lightly)
- moziner verb (to rain lightly)
Welsh
2 entries- glaw mân noun (light rain)
- gwlithlawio verb (to rain lightly)
Zazaki
1 entries- werdı varen verb (to rain lightly)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
What syrup did you drizzle on your pancake?
Source: tatoeba (2842437)
The drizzle turned into steady rain and we were soaked through by the time we got home.
Source: tatoeba (3005026)
In a drizzle, a fire will fizzle.
Source: tatoeba (3960785)
Showing 4 of 22 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.