crawdaddy

Other forms of crawdaddy

plural

crawdaddies·

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 crawdaddy

What does crawdaddy mean?

crawdaddy means "small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster".

How many syllables are in crawdaddy?

crawdaddy has 3 syllables: craw-dad-dy. The stress falls on "craw".

What is another word for crawdaddy?

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

crawdaddy 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.