fluttered
adjective, verb
fluttered is an adjective meaning “Confused, befuddled, flustered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-T-T-E-R-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fluttered mean?
adjective
- 1
Confused, befuddled, flustered.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of flutter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluttered?
- US
Fluttered has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fluttered.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluttered
- more fluttered comparative
- most fluttered superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluttered?
Fluttered appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).