wheatworm

Questions about wheatworm

What does wheatworm mean?

wheatworm means "small roundworm parasitic on wheat".

How many syllables are in wheatworm?

wheatworm has 3 syllables and divides as whe-a-tworm 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 wheatworm?

Close synonyms include wheat eel, wheat eelworm, Tylenchus tritici. 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 wheatworm a common word?

wheatworm 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.