bladderwrack

Other forms of bladderwrack

plural

bladderwracks·

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 bladderwrack

What does bladderwrack mean?

bladderwrack means "similar to and found with black rockweed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bladderwrack?

bladderwrack has 3 syllables: blad-der-wrack. The stress falls on "blad".

What is another word for bladderwrack?

Close synonyms include Ascophyllum nodosum, black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang, Fucus vesiculosus. 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 bladderwrack a common word?

bladderwrack 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.