bookworm

Other forms of bookworm

plural

bookworms·

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 bookworm

What does bookworm mean?

bookworm means "a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bookworm?

bookworm has 2 syllables: book-worm. The stress falls on "book". In IPA it is /ˈbʊˌkwɝm/.

What is another word for bookworm?

Close synonyms include pedant, scholastic. 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 bookworm a common word?

bookworm 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.