Answer to "Falter" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WAVER , but the solution may also be MISSABEAT which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in Wall Street Journal).

Falter crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
WAVER	33 %	5
SLIP	17 %	4
STAMMER	17 %	7
HESITATE	17 %	8
MISSABEAT	17 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Falter

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• hesitation
• bumble
• stammer
• stutter
• stumble
• waver
• hesitate
• vacillate
• weaken
• dither
• fail
• shake

Crossword Answer definitions

WAVER noun

1. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
2. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
3. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
4. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
5. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

WAVER verb

1. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
2. To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
3. To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
4. To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
5. To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
6. To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result WAVER

• Seesaw
• Fluctuate
• Vacillate
• Be undecided
• Flag-___ (patriot)
• Be indecisive
• Be in doubt
• Hem and haw
• Run hot and cold
• Be wishy-washy

More clues leading to the result SLIP

• "__ Slidin' Away"
• Lady's undergarment
• Pillowcase
• Fall's prelude
• Lingerie item
• Encounter a banana peel
• Yacht spot
• Take a spill
• Goof
• Cause of a fall

More clues leading to the result STAMMER

• Speak like Moses
• Speak in starts and stops
• Speak hesitantly
• Speak uncertainly
• Barely get the words out
• Speech therapist's challenge
• Speak haltingly
• Hem and haw
• Speak with involuntary pauses
• Speech defect.

More clues leading to the result HESITATE

• Pause indecisively
• Get lost?
• Act cautiously
• Pause
• Look before you leap
• Show uncertainty
• Hang back
• Be indecisive
• Hem
• Waver in purpose.

More clues leading to the result MISSABEAT

• Hesitate momentarily
• Stumble momentarily
• Make a musical goof
• Falter