serpent

Other forms of serpent

plural

serpents·

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 serpent

What does serpent mean?

serpent means "limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in serpent?

serpent has 2 syllables: ser-pent. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /ˈsɝpənt/.

What is another word for serpent?

Close synonyms include snake, ophidian. 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 serpent a common word?

serpent 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.