arthropod

Other forms of arthropod

plural

arthropods·

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 arthropod

What does arthropod mean?

arthropod means "invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin".

How many syllables are in arthropod?

arthropod has 3 syllables: ar-thro-pod. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹθɹəˌpɑd/.

Is arthropod a common word?

arthropod 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.

What rhymes with arthropod?

6 words rhyme with arthropod. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.