gaiter

Other forms of gaiter

plural

gaiters·

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 gaiter

What does gaiter mean?

gaiter means "a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gaiter?

gaiter has 2 syllables: gai-ter. The stress falls on "gai". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for gaiter?

Close synonyms include spat. 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 gaiter a common word?

gaiter 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.

What rhymes with gaiter?

7 words rhyme with gaiter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.