chigger

Other forms of chigger

plural

chiggers·

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 chigger

What does chigger mean?

chigger means "small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chigger?

chigger has 2 syllables: chig-ger. The stress falls on "chig".

What is another word for chigger?

Close synonyms include chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans, harvest mite, jigger. 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 chigger a common word?

chigger 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.