gnat

Other forms of gnat

plural

gnats·

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 gnat

What does gnat mean?

gnat means "any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gnat?

gnat has 1 syllable: gnat. In IPA it is /ˈnæt/.

Is gnat a common word?

gnat 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.