sifter

1. 1.

   a household sieve (as for flour)

   Broadersieve

Other forms of sifter

plural

sifters·

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 sifter

What does sifter mean?

sifter means "a household sieve (as for flour)".

How many syllables are in sifter?

sifter has 2 syllables: sif-ter. The stress falls on "sif".

Is sifter a common word?

sifter 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.