honeybee

Other forms of honeybee

plural

honeybees·

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 honeybee

What does honeybee mean?

honeybee means "social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces".

How many syllables are in honeybee?

honeybee has 3 syllables: hon-ey-bee. The stress falls on "hon". In IPA it is /ˈhʌniˌbi/.

What is another word for honeybee?

Close synonyms include Apis mellifera. 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 honeybee a common word?

honeybee 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.

What rhymes with honeybee?

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