woodlouse

Questions about woodlouse

What does woodlouse mean?

woodlouse means "any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats".

How many syllables are in woodlouse?

woodlouse has 2 syllables and divides as wood-louse 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 woodlouse?

Close synonyms include wood louse, slater. 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 woodlouse a common word?

woodlouse 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.