mollusc

Other forms of mollusc

plural

molluscs·

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 mollusc

What does mollusc mean?

mollusc means "invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell".

How many syllables are in mollusc?

mollusc has 2 syllables: mol-lusc. The stress falls on "mol".

What is another word for mollusc?

Close synonyms include mollusk, shellfish. 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 mollusc a common word?

mollusc 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.