You probably don't want to hear this, but - avoiding the words you (think you're going to) stutter on is not a good method to not stutter by. It's also not guaranteed that the word you use instead is one that you won't ever stutter on. In fact, by wanting to not deal with the stutter, it can make things worse for you. A more constructive approach would be working on being able to better deal with the stutter when it's there. - --- - _Moved from below, because someone started downvoting our remarks in this thread for some reason:_ - --- - Yes, those are two different things. It's a behavioral thing. If you avoid everything all the time, you never learn to manage anything. But if you learn how to manage, and you merely keep avoidance as a fallback, you can get to a better place, where stutter can actually be handled. We know that covert stutterers don't tend to be alright. They might sound like it, but they're struggling. - --- - Well, that's something for speech therapy to figure out. It's going to depend on a lot of things. I couldn't tell you in advance what might work for you. :)