falter

1. 1.

   the act of pausing uncertainly

   “there was a hesitation in his speech”

   Synonymshesitationwaverfaltering

   Broaderpause

Other forms of falter

plural

falters·

past tense

falterred·

present participle

falterring·

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 falter

What does falter mean?

falter means "be unsure or weak". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in falter?

falter has 2 syllables: fal-ter. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfɔltɚ/.

What is another word for falter?

Close synonyms include waver, waver, stumble, bumble, bumble. 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 falter a common word?

falter 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.

What rhymes with falter?

1 word rhymes with falter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.