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💁 A hair curl ⭕ A small circle 🦋 A brown butterfly
ringlet

ringlet

5 4.0
A small curl of hair that forms a ring
  • noun
  • /ˈrɪŋlɪt/
translation icon : rizo
  • Mary Craine thought that sometimes the ringlets on his head made him look like a wise cherub.
  • ringlets of hair
  • tight ringlets
  • blonde ringlets

They're definitely a lot more natural looking than the really perfect polished ringlet that maybe I would normally go for.

Examples

  • When I was little I had blonde ringlets, which is very different to how my hair is now.

  • Now I'll take this off and you'll see a perfect ringlet.

    Little Women (2019)

  • They're definitely a lot more natural looking than the really perfect polished ringlet that maybe I would normally go for.

    Cosmopolitan UK

  • I found her in this box of photos, with gorgeous skin and ringlets, good hair in the parlance.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The little girl had glossy black ringlets and dark eyes like Trina's.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Her auburn hair had been done up in ringlets, and for the past two days she'd worn the pearls.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • There was a proud smile on Mum's face as she curled Ginger's hair into ringlets around her fingers.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Her lipstick is gone, and her disordered hair clings in damp ringlets to her neck.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The speaker was bandy-legged, stocky, with grizzled hair falling in ringlets around his pointed ears.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The little girl had glossy black ringlets that danced as she twirled around.

Synonyms

curl
vsringlet
76 1.0

A lock of hair shaped into a small spiral

is a small circular lock rather than any larger spiral form
sausage curl
vsringlet
6.0

A thick round lock of hair that looks like a small sausage

is a small circular lock not a thick cylindrical style

Compounds

ringlet butterfly
8.5

A small brown butterfly with spots that look like eyes on its wings

How Curly

spiral
25 3.8
ringlet
5 4.0
curl
76 1.0
wave
31 6.3

Surface Forms

ringlet singular
ringlets plural

Morphology

ringlet = ring (transparent) = ring + let

The noun is formed by adding the diminutive suffix '-let' to 'ring', yielding 'a small ring', which directly matches this sense of a small curl of hair.

Etymology

Ringlet comes from ring 'circle' and the small ending -let 'little', so a ringlet is literally a 'little ring' and this image helps you remember a small curl of hair shaped like a circle.