caterpillar

Other forms of caterpillar

plural

caterpillars·

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 caterpillar

What does caterpillar mean?

caterpillar means "a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caterpillar?

caterpillar has 4 syllables: cat-er-pil-lar. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætəˌpɪlɚ/.

What is another word for caterpillar?

Close synonyms include cat. 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 caterpillar a common word?

caterpillar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 caterpillar?

1 word rhymes with caterpillar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.