fritter

Other forms of fritter

plural

fritters·

past tense

fritterred·

present participle

fritterring·

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 fritter

What does fritter mean?

fritter means "small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fritter?

fritter has 2 syllables: frit-ter. The stress falls on "frit". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪtɚ/.

What is another word for fritter?

Close synonyms include frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool. 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 fritter a common word?

fritter 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.