What is another word for stutter?
Synonyms for stutter
ˈstʌt ərstut·ter
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Princeton's WordNet
stammer, stutterverb
a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
Synonyms:
stammerbumble, stutter, stammer, falterverb
speak haltingly
"The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
Synonyms:
spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, falter, bollix, bumble, foul up, bodge, flub, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, stumble, waver, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, stammer, muck up, louse up, bollocks up, muff
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #2540 | blow | |
| #21436 | spoil | |
| #24734 | stumble | |
| #26944 | bobble | |
| #28828 | bumble | |
| #29630 | fluff | |
| #30892 | fumble | |
| #33911 | muff | |
| #53610 | bollocks | |
| #56544 | falter | |
| #61267 | stutter | |
| #63134 | bungle | |
| #64040 | waver | |
| #104177 | botch | |
| #106648 | stammer | |
| #220019 | flub | |
| #231784 | bodge | |
| #315643 | mishandle |
How to use stutter in a sentence?
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
It was brutal, it was really, really brutal, and I still hesitate and stutter because it’s really hard for me.
It was brutal. It was really, really brutal, and I still hesitate and stutter because it’s really hard for me.
The idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump, joe Biden's Joe Biden that I knew my whole life. Joe Biden's Joe Biden that I've always stood up to. Joe Biden's the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I'd smack Joe Biden in the mouth.
My amazing niece and goddaughter Avery has struggled with a stutter much of her life. She was just told by a guy who knows a little something about it that she can be anything she wants to in this world.
Translations for stutter
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- tartamecaAragonese
- تلعثمArabic
- заекванеBulgarian
- quequeigCatalan, Valencian
- koktání, koktatCzech
- atal dweudWelsh
- stammeln, stotternGerman
- τραύλισμα, τραυλίζωGreek
- balbutadoEsperanto
- tartamudeo, balbucir, tartamudearSpanish
- hitz-moteltasunBasque
- änkyttää, änkytysFinnish
- bégaiement, bégayer, balbutierFrench
- maolteangaIrish
- tartamudezGalician
- גמגום, גמגםHebrew
- dadogás, dadogHungarian
- կակազել, կակազումArmenian
- balbutiamentoInterlingua
- gagapIndonesian
- stotero, balbutarIdo
- balbuzie, balbettare, tartagliareItalian
- לְגַמגֵםHebrew
- 吃り, 吃るJapanese
- кекештікKazakh
- 더듬기Korean
- balbutioLatin
- mikčiojimasLithuanian
- stostīšanāsLatvian
- kikikikiMāori
- stotterenDutch
- jąkanie, jąkać sięPolish
- gaguejar, gagueiraPortuguese
- aklluy, aklluykachayQuechua
- balbegiarRomansh
- bâlbâi, bâlbâireRomanian
- запинаться, заикание, заикатьсяRussian
- achichiaduraSardinian
- mucanje, муцањеSerbo-Croatian
- koktanieSlovak
- belbëzimiAlbanian
- stamning, stammaSwedish
- kekemelik, kekelemek, kekeleme, pepelemekTurkish
- заїканняUkrainian
- ہکلاناUrdu
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