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Is totter a Scrabble word?

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

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Is totter a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

TOTTER,

5-letter words (4 found)

OTTER,ROTTE,TORTE,TOTER,

4-letter words (6 found)

ROTE,TORE,TORT,TOTE,TRET,TROT,

3-letter words (10 found)

ORE,ORT,REO,RET,ROE,ROT,TET,TOE,TOR,TOT,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,ET,OE,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from totter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of totter

totter

Etymology

From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑtɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Verb

totter (third-person singular simple present totters, present participle tottering, simple past and past participle tottered) (intransitive)

  1. To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
  2. (figurative) To be on the brink of collapse.
  3. (archaic) To collect junk or scrap.

Synonyms

  • (move unsteadily): reel, teeter, toddle, stagger, sway

Derived terms

  • teeter-totter
  • totterer
  • tottergrass
  • tottering
  • totteringly
  • tottersome
  • tottery

Translations

Noun

totter (plural totters)

  1. An unsteady movement or gait.
  2. (archaic) A rag and bone man.

Derived terms

Translations

Middle High German

Noun

totter m

  1. egg yolk, yolk
    • 13th century, Berthold von Regensburg, edited 1862 by Franz Pfeiffer:
    • 15th century, Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard:

Source: wiktionary.org