scuttlebutt

Other forms of scuttlebutt

plural

scuttlebutts·

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 scuttlebutt

What does scuttlebutt mean?

scuttlebutt means "a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people".

How many syllables are in scuttlebutt?

scuttlebutt has 3 syllables: scutt-le-butt. The stress falls on "scutt". In IPA it is /ˈskʌtəlˌbʌt/.

What is another word for scuttlebutt?

Close synonyms include gossip, comment. 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 scuttlebutt a common word?

scuttlebutt 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.

What rhymes with scuttlebutt?

4 words rhyme with scuttlebutt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.