seesaw

1. 1.

   a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

   Synonymsteeterteeter-totterteetertotterteeterboardtilting boarddandle board

   Broaderplaything

   Part ofplayground

Other forms of seesaw

plural

seesaws·

past tense

seesawed·

present participle

seesawing·

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 seesaw

What does seesaw mean?

seesaw means "ride on a plank". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seesaw?

seesaw has 2 syllables: see-saw. The stress falls on "see". In IPA it is /ˈsiˌsɔ/.

What is another word for seesaw?

Close synonyms include teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeter, totter, teeter. 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 seesaw a common word?

seesaw 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 seesaw?

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