pest

Other forms of pest

plural

pests·

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 pest

What does pest mean?

pest means "a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pest?

pest has 1 syllable: pest. In IPA it is /ˈpɛst/.

What is another word for pest?

Close synonyms include plague, pestilence, pestis, plague, pestilence. 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 pest a common word?

pest 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.

What rhymes with pest?

1 word rhymes with pest. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.