Can you stop standing behind me and looking at my hair whorl?
Source: tatoeba (9982900)
Whorl
//(h)wɔː(ɹ)l//
Synonyms for "whorl" (55 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
50 translations across 25 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- agërshak noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- qerthull noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Armenian
1 entries- լիսեռ noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Bulgarian
2 entries- венче noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
- витка noun (volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.)
Catalan
2 entries- fusaiola noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- tortera noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Czech
1 entries- přeslen noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
Danish
1 entries- tenvægt noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Dutch
4 entries- bladerkrans noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
- kringel noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
- spinschijf noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- spinsteen noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Finnish
4 entries- kiehkura noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
- kierre noun (volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.)
- pyörre noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
- värttinänkehrä noun (weight attached to a spindle)
French
4 entries- fusaïole noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- tour de spire noun (volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.)
- verticille noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
- volute noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
Galician
1 entries- fusaiola noun (weight attached to a spindle)
German
4 entries- Kringel noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
- Spinnwirtel noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- Windung noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
- Wirbel noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
Greek
1 entries- σφοντύλι noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Icelandic
1 entries- snældusnúður noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Irish
1 entries- roithleán eiteáin noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Italian
1 entries- fusaiolo noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Māori
1 entries- tōrino noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
Norwegian
1 entries- håndteinsnelle noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Persian
1 entries- پیچاپیچ noun (pattern of concentric circles.)
Portuguese
2 entries- fusaiola noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- verticilo noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
Romanian
1 entries- verticil noun (circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs.)
Romansch
1 entries- rudella dal fis noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Russian
3 entries- пря́слень noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- пря́слице noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- пря́сло noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Spanish
2 entries- fusayola noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- tortera noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Swedish
2 entries- sländtrissa noun (weight attached to a spindle)
- trissa noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Welsh
1 entries- chwerfan noun (weight attached to a spindle)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
An interesting fact is how only 10% of people have an anticlockwise hair whorl.
Source: tatoeba (13724061)
“Waves Against the Sand,” to music by Martinu, which opened the program, filled the stage space with whorling patterns of dancers surging with the gentle but ceaseless momentum of the sea.
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.