twister

Other forms of twister

plural

twisters·

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 twister

What does twister mean?

twister means "a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in twister?

twister has 2 syllables: twis-ter. The stress falls on "twis". In IPA it is /ˈtwɪstɚ/.

What is another word for twister?

Close synonyms include tornado, cruller. 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 twister a common word?

twister 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.