twitter

Other forms of twitter

plural

twitters·

past tense

twitterred·

present participle

twitterring·

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 twitter

What does twitter mean?

twitter means "a series of chirps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in twitter?

twitter has 2 syllables: twit-ter. The stress falls on "twit". In IPA it is /ˈtwɪtɚ/.

What is another word for twitter?

Close synonyms include chirrup, chitter. 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 twitter a common word?

twitter 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.