barter

Other forms of barter

plural

barters·

past tense

barterred·

present participle

barterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barter

What does barter mean?

barter means "an equal exchange". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barter?

barter has 2 syllables: bar-ter. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for barter?

Close synonyms include swap, swop, trade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barter a common word?

barter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.