stutter

Other forms of stutter

plural

stutters·

past tense

stutterred·

present participle

stutterring·

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 stutter

What does stutter mean?

stutter 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 stutter?

stutter has 2 syllables: stut-ter. The stress falls on "stut". In IPA it is /ˈstʌtɚ/.

What is another word for stutter?

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

stutter 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.