Definitions for stutter

stutter stut·ter

Spelling: [stuht-er]
IPA: /ˈstʌt ər/

Stutter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in stutter (erstttu).

Definitions for stutter

noun

  1. distorted speech characterized principally by blocks or spasms interrupting the rhythm.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to speak in such a way that the rhythm is interrupted by repetitions, blocks or spasms, or prolongations of sounds or syllables, sometimes accompanied by contortions of the face and body.

Origin of stutter

1520-30; earlier stut (Middle English stutten to stutter) + -er6; compare Dutch stotteren, Middle Low German stotern in same sense

Examples for stutter

This family, sir, is called Dalton, and not even a stutter can make that Dawkins.

Have you ever heard a light-yellow, lean, sad, earnest Chinaman stutter in Pidgin-English?

"He's really invigorated a number of people who stutter," says Jane Fraser, the president of the stuttering Foundation in Memphis.

A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.

One happy word from you would save me a relapse into stutter.

“I had been doing speech therapy, and it had been making me more aware of the stutter, which actually made it worse,” he says.

Sometimes an f-word or a b-word is used in TV and movies like a stutter.

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

We had no warning, you see,” said stutter, “that things were changed.

With Ambassador John Negroponte in place, halting dialogues could begin to splutter, and stutter, and stumble.

Word Value for stutter
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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