sphingid

Other forms of sphingid

plural

sphingids·

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 sphingid

What does sphingid mean?

sphingid means "any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed".

How many syllables are in sphingid?

sphingid has 2 syllables: sphin-gid. The stress falls on "sphin".

What is another word for sphingid?

Close synonyms include hawkmoth, hawk moth, sphinx moth, hummingbird moth. 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 sphingid a common word?

sphingid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.