stutter
/ˈstʌtɚ/verb, noun
stutter is spelled S-T-U-T-T-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is studder: about 280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Stutter is a verb meaning “To speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds”.
How many letters and syllables are in stutter?
| Letters | 7: S-T-U-T-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, studder, about 280 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell stutter?
Stutter is spelled S-T-U-T-T-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for stutter in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is stutter?
Stutter appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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 stutter?
- US /ˈstʌtɚ/
- UK /ˈstʌtə/
Stutter 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stutter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stutter?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stutter from its last stressed vowel (/ʌtəɹ/):
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 stutter
- stutters present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- stuttering participle, present
- stuttered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stutter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
He stuttered a few words of thanks.
- 2
To expel a gas with difficulty.
I was stuttering after the marathon.
noun
- 1
A speech disorder characterized by stuttering.
- 2
obsoleteOne who stutters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stutter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense speech disorder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bégaiement |
| German | Stottern |
| Portuguese | gagueira |
| Spanish | tartamudeo |
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 stutter come from?
From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).