fidget

Other forms of fidget

plural

fidgets·

past tense

fidgetted·

present participle

fidgetting·

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 fidget

What does fidget mean?

fidget means "a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fidget?

fidget has 2 syllables: fid-get. The stress falls on "fid". In IPA it is /ˈfɪdʒɪt/.

What is another word for fidget?

Close synonyms include fidgetiness, restlessness. 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 fidget a common word?

fidget 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.