pelter

Other forms of pelter

plural

pelters·

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 pelter

What does pelter mean?

pelter means "a heavy rain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pelter?

pelter has 2 syllables: pel-ter. The stress falls on "pel".

What is another word for pelter?

Close synonyms include downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent. 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 pelter a common word?

pelter 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.