maggot

1. 1.

   the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

   Broadergrub

Other forms of maggot

plural

maggots·

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 maggot

What does maggot mean?

maggot means "the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter".

How many syllables are in maggot?

maggot has 2 syllables: mag-got. The stress falls on "mag". In IPA it is /ˈmæɡət/.

Is maggot a common word?

maggot is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.