quaver

quaver is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 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 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
2. intransitive verb. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
3. transitive verb. To utter with quavers.
4. noun. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
5. noun. An eighth note. See Eighth.
6. noun. a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
7. noun. a tremulous sound
8. verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

   Synonyms: trill, warble

9. verb. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

   Synonyms: waver

Synonyms

trill, warble, waver

Common word forms

quavers, quavered, quaverer, quavering, quaverous

Words from these letters

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