polychete

Other forms of polychete

plural

polychetes·

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 polychete

What does polychete mean?

polychete means "chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles".

How many syllables are in polychete?

polychete has 3 syllables and divides as po-ly-chete 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 polychete?

Close synonyms include polychaete, polychaete worm, polychete worm. 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 polychete a common word?

polychete 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.