sliver

1. 1.

   a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

   “he got a splinter in his finger”

   “it broke into slivers”

   Synonymssplinter

   Broaderbit
2. 2.

   a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

   Synonymsparingshaving

   Broaderfragment

   Narrowersplintturning

Other forms of sliver

plural

slivers·

past tense

sliverred·

present participle

sliverring·

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 sliver

What does sliver mean?

sliver means "divide into slivers or splinters". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sliver?

sliver has 2 syllables: sliv-er. The stress falls on "sliv". In IPA it is /ˈslɪvɚ/.

What is another word for sliver?

Close synonyms include splinter, splinter, splinter, paring, shaving. 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 sliver a common word?

sliver 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.