thrips

Other forms of thrips

plural

thripses·

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 thrips

What does thrips mean?

thrips means "any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive".

How many syllables are in thrips?

thrips has 1 syllable: thrips. In IPA it is /ˈθɹɪps/.

What is another word for thrips?

Close synonyms include thrip, thripid. 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 thrips a common word?

thrips 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.