teeter-totter

1. 1.

   ride on a plank

   Synonymsteetertotterseesaw

   Broaderplay

Questions about teeter-totter

What does teeter-totter mean?

teeter-totter 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-totter?

teeter-totter has 4 syllables: tee-ter--tot-ter. The stress falls on "ter-".

What is another word for teeter-totter?

Close synonyms include seesaw, teeter, 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-totter a common word?

teeter-totter 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.