quaver

Other forms of quaver

plural

quavers·

past tense

quaverred·

present participle

quaverring·

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 quaver

What does quaver mean?

quaver means "a tremulous sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quaver?

quaver has 2 syllables: qua-ver. The stress falls on "qua". In IPA it is /ˈkweɪvɚ/.

What is another word for quaver?

Close synonyms include eighth note, waver, warble, trill. 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 quaver a common word?

quaver 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.