barnacle

Other forms of barnacle

plural

barnacles·

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 barnacle

What does barnacle mean?

barnacle means "marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barnacle?

barnacle has 3 syllables: bar-na-cle. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹnəkəl/.

What is another word for barnacle?

Close synonyms include cirriped, cirripede, barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis. 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 barnacle a common word?

barnacle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.