microbat

Other forms of microbat

plural

microbats·

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 microbat

What does microbat mean?

microbat means "typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution".

How many syllables are in microbat?

microbat has 3 syllables and divides as mi-cro-bat 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 microbat?

Close synonyms include carnivorous bat. 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 microbat a common word?

microbat 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.