shimmer

Other forms of shimmer

plural

shimmers·

past tense

shimmerred·

present participle

shimmerring·

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 shimmer

What does shimmer mean?

shimmer means "shine with a weak or fitful light". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shimmer?

shimmer has 2 syllables: shim-mer. The stress falls on "shim". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪmɚ/.

What is another word for shimmer?

Close synonyms include play. 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 shimmer a common word?

shimmer 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.