hawkmoth

Other forms of hawkmoth

plural

hawkmoths·

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 hawkmoth

What does hawkmoth mean?

hawkmoth means "any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed".

How many syllables are in hawkmoth?

hawkmoth has 2 syllables and divides as hawk-moth 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 hawkmoth?

Close synonyms include hawk moth, sphingid, sphinx moth, hummingbird 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 hawkmoth a common word?

hawkmoth 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.