teetertotter

1. 1.

   ride on a plank

   Synonymsteeter-totterseesaw

   Broaderplay

Other forms of teetertotter

plural

teetertotters·

past tense

teetertotterred·

present participle

teetertotterring·

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 teetertotter

What does teetertotter mean?

teetertotter 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 teetertotter?

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

What is another word for teetertotter?

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

teetertotter 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.