fishworm

Other forms of fishworm

plural

fishworms·

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 fishworm

What does fishworm mean?

fishworm means "terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers".

How many syllables are in fishworm?

fishworm has 2 syllables and divides as fish-worm under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fishworm?

Close synonyms include earthworm, angleworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker. 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 fishworm a common word?

fishworm 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.