gelechiid

Other forms of gelechiid

plural

gelechiids·

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 gelechiid

What does gelechiid mean?

gelechiid means "small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests".

How many syllables are in gelechiid?

gelechiid has 4 syllables and divides as ge-le-chi-id 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 gelechiid?

Close synonyms include gelechiid moth. 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 gelechiid a common word?

gelechiid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.