cockroach

Other forms of cockroach

plural

cockroaches·

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 cockroach

What does cockroach mean?

cockroach means "any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests".

How many syllables are in cockroach?

cockroach has 2 syllables: coc-kroach. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /ˈkɑˌkɹoʊtʃ/.

What is another word for cockroach?

Close synonyms include roach. 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 cockroach a common word?

cockroach 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 cockroach?

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