Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tweezer

/twˈizɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English

Syllables: tweez-er
IPA: /twˈizɚ/

19

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

noun

A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

American usage

verb

To use tweezers.

Example Sentences

"Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers […]"

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

tweezers (plural) tweezers (present, singular) tweezering (participle, present) tweezered (participle, past) tweezered (past)

Phrases

optical tweezer

Synonyms

pincer pair of pincers pair of tweezers

Rhymes With

caesar freezer teaser cesar ebenezer pleaser reser beazer keezer cheeser feeser leazer

Questions

How do you pronounce tweezer?: The recorded pronunciation is /twˈizɚ/.
What does tweezer mean?: tweezers.

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