skelter
noun, verb
skelter is spelled S-K-E-L-T-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, skelter means “A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of skelter is skelters.
How many letters and syllables are in skelter?
| Letters | 7: S-K-E-L-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,954th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is skelter?
Skelter appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th 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).
How do you pronounce skelter?
Skelter 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).
What rhymes with skelter?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as skelter.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: kestrel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of skelter
- skelters plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skeltering participle, present
- skeltered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skelter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.
verb
- 1
colloquialTo run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Skelter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hurry, scurry:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does skelter come from?
Compare helter-skelter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).