molt

Other forms of molt

plural

molts·

past tense

molted·

present participle

molting·

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 molt

What does molt mean?

molt means "periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in molt?

molt has 1 syllable: molt. In IPA it is /ˈmoʊlt/.

What is another word for molt?

Close synonyms include molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis, shed. 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 molt a common word?

molt 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.