walkingstick

Questions about walkingstick

What does walkingstick mean?

walkingstick means "any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies".

How many syllables are in walkingstick?

walkingstick has 3 syllables and divides as wal-king-stick under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for walkingstick?

Close synonyms include walking stick, stick insect. 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 walkingstick a common word?

walkingstick 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.