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Is titter a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word titter is a Scrabble US word. The word titter is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is titter a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word titter is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Yes. The word titter is a Words With Friends word. The word titter is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

TITTER,

5-letter words (4 found)

TETRI,TITER,TITRE,TRITE,

4-letter words (7 found)

RITE,RITT,TIER,TIRE,TITE,TRET,TRIE,

3-letter words (7 found)

IRE,REI,RET,RIT,TET,TIE,TIT,

2-letter words (6 found)

ER,ET,IT,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from titter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of titter

titter

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɪtɚ/, [ˈtɪɾɚ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in Middle English titering (“hesitation, vacillation”)), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (“to waver”), related to Old Norse titra (“to shake, shiver, quiver”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to snicker”).

Verb

titter (third-person singular simple present titters, present participle tittering, simple past and past participle tittered)

  1. To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
    • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily
      A group of tittering pages ran before.
  2. (obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.
Synonyms
  • snicker; see also Thesaurus:laugh
Derived terms
  • tittersome
Translations

Noun

titter (plural titters)

  1. A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
    • April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
      There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
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Etymology 2

Probably related to tit, titty.

Noun

titter (plural titters)

  1. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:titter.
Synonyms
  • (a woman's breast): See also Thesaurus:breasts.

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Source: wiktionary.org