welter

Other forms of welter

plural

welters·

past tense

welterred·

present participle

welterring·

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 welter

What does welter mean?

welter means "toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in welter?

welter has 2 syllables: wel-ter. The stress falls on "wel". In IPA it is /ˈwɛltɚ/.

What is another word for welter?

Close synonyms include wallow, clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle. 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 welter a common word?

welter 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.