vespid

Other forms of vespid

plural

vespids·

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 vespid

What does vespid mean?

vespid means "mostly social nest-building wasps".

How many syllables are in vespid?

vespid has 2 syllables: ve-spid. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vespid?

Close synonyms include vespid wasp. 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 vespid a common word?

vespid 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.