cotter

Other forms of cotter

plural

cotters·

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 cotter

What does cotter mean?

cotter means "a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cotter?

cotter has 2 syllables: cot-ter. The stress falls on "cot". In IPA it is /ˈkɑtɚ/.

What is another word for cotter?

Close synonyms include cottar, cottier, cottar. 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 cotter a common word?

cotter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.