teeterboard

Other forms of teeterboard

plural

teeterboards·

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 teeterboard

What does teeterboard mean?

teeterboard means "a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end".

How many syllables are in teeterboard?

teeterboard has 4 syllables and divides as te-e-ter-board under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for teeterboard?

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

teeterboard 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.