Definitions for stammer

stammer stam·mer

Spelling: [stam-er]
IPA: /ˈstæm ər/

Stammer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in stammer (aemmrst).

Definitions for stammer

noun

  1. a stammering mode of utterance.
  2. a stammered utterance.

verb (used with object)

  1. to say with a stammer (often followed by out).

verb (used without object)

  1. to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.

Origin of stammer

before 1000; Middle English stammeren (v.), Old English stamerian (cognate with German stammern), equivalent to stam stammering + -erian -er6; akin to Old No

Examples for stammer

He was alone, beside himself, with livid face and scarce able to stammer.

But the wish to laugh had returned, and made her stammer, interrupting her at each word.

This was the unhappy and astonishing birth of my stammer or at least my first gripping self-conscious awareness of it.

The best he could do was to stammer a hope that she would not be obliged to sell the house.

Her "guess" was so close to the truth that I could only stammer and hesitate.

All she could stammer, however, was, “It would be an honor.”

As an adult, I have heard people affecting a stammer or a stutter.

He backed, and began to stammer an apology; but she did not wait to hear a word of it.

But I also had an index in the back of my diary that explained that famul meant stutter of stammer.

"Really, Mrs. Vibert, I am overwhelmed," I managed to stammer.

Word Value for stammer
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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