stammer

Other forms of stammer

plural

stammers·

past tense

stammerred·

present participle

stammerring·

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 stammer

What does stammer mean?

stammer means "a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stammer?

stammer has 2 syllables: stam-mer. The stress falls on "stam". In IPA it is /ˈstæmɚ/.

What is another word for stammer?

Close synonyms include stutter, bumble, stutter, falter. 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 stammer a common word?

stammer 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.