loiter

Other forms of loiter

past tense

loiterred·

present participle

loiterring·

third person

loiters·

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 loiter

What does loiter mean?

loiter means "be about".

How many syllables are in loiter?

loiter has 2 syllables: loi-ter. The stress falls on "loi". In IPA it is /ˈlɔɪtɚ/.

What is another word for loiter?

Close synonyms include lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag. 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 loiter a common word?

loiter 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.