tweet

1. 1.

   a weak chirping sound as of a small bird

   Broaderchirp

Other forms of tweet

plural

tweets·

past tense

tweeted·

present participle

tweeting·

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 tweet

What does tweet mean?

tweet means "make a weak, chirping sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tweet?

tweet has 1 syllable: tweet. In IPA it is /ˈtwit/.

What is another word for tweet?

Close synonyms include twirp, pinch, squeeze, twinge, nip. 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 tweet a common word?

tweet 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.