lappet

Other forms of lappet

plural

lappets·

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 lappet

What does lappet mean?

lappet means "a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lappet?

lappet has 2 syllables: lap-pet. The stress falls on "lap".

What is another word for lappet?

Close synonyms include wattle, lappet 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 lappet a common word?

lappet 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.