splinter

1. 1.

   a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

   “he got a splinter in his finger”

   “it broke into slivers”

   Synonymssliver

   Broaderbit

Other forms of splinter

plural

splinters·

past tense

splinterred·

present participle

splinterring·

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 splinter

What does splinter mean?

splinter means "withdraw from an organization or communion". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in splinter?

splinter has 2 syllables: splin-ter. The stress falls on "splin". In IPA it is /ˈsplɪntɚ/.

What is another word for splinter?

Close synonyms include secede, break away, sliver, sliver, sliver. 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 splinter a common word?

splinter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.