hellbender

Questions about hellbender

What does hellbender mean?

hellbender means "large salamander of North American rivers and streams".

How many syllables are in hellbender?

hellbender has 3 syllables and divides as hell-ben-der 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 hellbender?

Close synonyms include mud puppy, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis. 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 hellbender a common word?

hellbender 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.