teeter

1. 1.

   move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

   Synonymsseesawtotter

   Broadermove

Other forms of teeter

plural

teeters·

past tense

teeterred·

present participle

teeterring·

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 teeter

What does teeter mean?

teeter means "a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teeter?

teeter has 2 syllables: tee-ter. The stress falls on "tee". In IPA it is /ˈtitɚ/.

What is another word for teeter?

Close synonyms include seesaw, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board. 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 teeter a common word?

teeter 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.

What rhymes with teeter?

1 word rhymes with teeter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.