winter

Other forms of winter

plural

winters·

past tense

winterred·

present participle

winterring·

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 winter

What does winter mean?

winter means "the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in winter?

winter has 2 syllables: win-ter. The stress falls on "win". In IPA it is /ˈwɪntɚ/.

What is another word for winter?

Close synonyms include wintertime, overwinter. 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 winter a common word?

winter is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with winter?

1 word rhymes with winter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.