sidewinder

Other forms of sidewinder

plural

sidewinders·

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 sidewinder

What does sidewinder mean?

sidewinder means "small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sidewinder?

sidewinder has 3 syllables: side-win-der. The stress falls on "side". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪˌdwaɪndɚ/.

What is another word for sidewinder?

Close synonyms include horned rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes. 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 sidewinder a common word?

sidewinder 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.