patter

patter is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
2. intransitive verb. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
3. intransitive verb. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
4. transitive verb. To spatter; to sprinkle.
5. intransitive verb. To mutter; as prayers.
6. noun. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
7. noun. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
8. noun. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
9. noun. plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)

   Synonyms: spiel

10. noun. a quick succession of light rapid sounds

    "the patter of mice"

    "the patter of tiny feet"

11. verb. make light, rapid and repeated sounds

    "gently pattering rain"

12. verb. rain gently

    "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"

    Synonyms: spatter, spit, sprinkle

Synonyms

spiel, spatter, spit, sprinkle

Common word forms

patters, pattered, patterer, pattering

Words from these letters

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