teether
noun
teether is a noun meaning “A device given to infants to help soothe inflamed gums during teething, often filled with a fluid or gel that can be frozen or refrigerated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-E-T-H-E-R, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of teether is teethers.
What does teether mean?
noun
- 1
A device given to infants to help soothe inflamed gums during teething, often filled with a fluid or gel that can be frozen or refrigerated.
- 2
One who teethes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce teether?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-teether.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of teether
- teethers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is teether?
Teether appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Teether in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device given to infants to help soothe inflamed gums during teething:
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 teether come from?
From teethe + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).