rodent

Other forms of rodent

plural

rodents·

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 rodent

What does rodent mean?

rodent means "relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing".

How many syllables are in rodent?

rodent has 2 syllables: ro-dent. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊdənt/.

What is another word for rodent?

Close synonyms include gnawer. 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 rodent a common word?

rodent 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.