smatter

Other forms of smatter

past tense

smatterred·

present participle

smatterring·

third person

smatters·

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 smatter

What does smatter mean?

smatter means "work with in an amateurish manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smatter?

smatter has 2 syllables: smat-ter. The stress falls on "smat". In IPA it is /ˈsmætɚ/.

What is another word for smatter?

Close synonyms include dabble, play around, babble, blather, blether. 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 smatter a common word?

smatter 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.