hellgrammiate

Questions about hellgrammiate

What does hellgrammiate mean?

hellgrammiate means "large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait".

How many syllables are in hellgrammiate?

hellgrammiate has 4 syllables and divides as hell-gram-mi-ate 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 hellgrammiate?

Close synonyms include dobson. 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 hellgrammiate a common word?

hellgrammiate 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.