lobster

Other forms of lobster

plural

lobsters·

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 lobster

What does lobster mean?

lobster means "flesh of a lobster". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lobster?

lobster has 2 syllables: lob-ster. The stress falls on "lob". In IPA it is /ˈlɑbstɚ/.

Is lobster a common word?

lobster is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.