angleworm

Other forms of angleworm

plural

angleworms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about angleworm

What does angleworm mean?

angleworm means "terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers".

How many syllables are in angleworm?

angleworm has 3 syllables and divides as an-gle-worm under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for angleworm?

Close synonyms include earthworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angleworm a common word?

angleworm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.