chaeta

1. 1.

   a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

   Broaderseta

Other forms of chaeta

plural

chaetae

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 chaeta

What does chaeta mean?

chaeta means "a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm".

How many syllables are in chaeta?

chaeta has 3 syllables: cha-e-ta. The stress falls on "cha".

Is chaeta a common word?

chaeta 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.