In my native language there’s a word for that kind of words, but I’m not sure how they are called in english.
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Filler words is the most correct answer because words like “like” do actually have meaning, but there is also something called embololalia (also spelled embolalia), the insertion of meaningless sounds/words into speech, which would include “uh, ah, mmm,” etc.
I believe they’re called filler words
Or simply “fillers”, see last definition here.
The general grammatical category is interjection.
Crutches, in my language. We got our collective ears chewed out about it by a hard ass teacher in school. I think I don’t use crutches no more, but I could be wrong.
