skidder

Other forms of skidder

plural

skidders·

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 skidder

What does skidder mean?

skidder means "a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skidder?

skidder has 2 syllables: skid-der. The stress falls on "skid".

What is another word for skidder?

Close synonyms include slider, slipper. 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 skidder a common word?

skidder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.