grasshopper

Other forms of grasshopper

plural

grasshoppers·

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 grasshopper

What does grasshopper mean?

grasshopper means "terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grasshopper?

grasshopper has 3 syllables: gras-shop-per. The stress falls on "gras". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹæsˌhɑpɚ/.

What is another word for grasshopper?

Close synonyms include hopper. 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 grasshopper a common word?

grasshopper is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with grasshopper?

2 words rhyme with grasshopper. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.