laughter

Other forms of laughter

plural

laughters·

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 laughter

What does laughter mean?

laughter means "the sound of laughing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laughter?

laughter has 2 syllables: laugh-ter. The stress falls on "laugh". In IPA it is /ˈlæftɚ/.

What is another word for laughter?

Close synonyms include laugh. 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 laughter a common word?

laughter is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.