crawdad

Other forms of crawdad

plural

crawdads·

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 crawdad

What does crawdad mean?

crawdad means "tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crawdad?

crawdad has 2 syllables: craw-dad. The stress falls on "craw".

What is another word for crawdad?

Close synonyms include crayfish, crawfish, ecrevisse, crayfish, crawfish. 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 crawdad a common word?

crawdad 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.