antlion

Other forms of antlion

plural

antlions·

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 antlion

What does antlion mean?

antlion means "the larva of any of several insects". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antlion?

antlion has 3 syllables: ant-li-on. The stress falls on "ant".

What is another word for antlion?

Close synonyms include doodlebug, ant lion, ant lion, antlion fly. 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 antlion a common word?

antlion 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.