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twitter

twit·terUK /ˈtwɪtə/noun, verb

twitter is spelled T-W-I-T-T-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables (twit·ter). It appears 68 times per million words in written English, the 1,562nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, twitter means “The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of twitter is twitters.

How many letters and syllables are in twitter?

Letters7: T-W-I-T-T-E-R
Syllables2: twit·ter
In writing68 times per million words; the 1,562nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 twitter?

Twitter appears 68 times per million words in written English, the 1,562nd 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 twitter?

  • UK /ˈtwɪtə/
  • UK [ˈtʰwɪtʰə]
  • /ˈtwɪtɚ/

Twitter has 2 syllables, split twit·ter in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-twitter.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Twitter.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-Twitter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with twitter?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as twitter from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtə/, British pronunciation):

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 twitter

  • twitters plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • twittering participle, present
  • twittered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does twitter mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.

    I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.

  2. 2

    Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.

  3. 3

    A tremulous broken sound.

  4. 4

    A slight trembling of the nerves.

  5. 5

    UKinformalChiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.

  6. 6

    ScotlandarchaicA knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.

verb

  1. 1

    To utter a succession of chirps.

  2. 2

    (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.

  3. 3

    To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

  4. 4

    To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo twit; to reproach or upbraid.

  6. 6

    Alternative form of Twitter.

noun

as Twitter
  1. 1

    informalA user account on Twitter.

    I've lost the password to my Twitter.

  2. 2

    informalA feed on Twitter.

  3. 3

    informalA community on Twitter.

verb

as Twitter
  1. 1

    proscribedTo tweet; to post an update to Twitter.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate twitter?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of twitter: twit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Twitter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanZwitschern (sound made by birds), zwitschern (to utter chirps)
Portuguesepiar (sound made by birds), Twitter (user account)

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 twitter come from?

From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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