fetter

Other forms of fetter

plural

fetters·

past tense

fetterred·

present participle

fetterring·

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 fetter

What does fetter mean?

fetter means "a shackle for the ankles or feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fetter?

fetter has 2 syllables: fet-ter. The stress falls on "fet". In IPA it is /ˈfɛtɚ/.

What is another word for fetter?

Close synonyms include hobble, shackle. 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 fetter a common word?

fetter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.