scooter

Other forms of scooter

plural

scooters·

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 scooter

What does scooter mean?

scooter means "a motorboat resembling a motor scooter". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scooter?

scooter has 2 syllables: scoo-ter. The stress falls on "scoo". In IPA it is /ˈskutɚ/.

What is another word for scooter?

Close synonyms include water scooter, sea scooter, motor scooter, iceboat, ice yacht. 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 scooter a common word?

scooter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.