Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

false potato beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: false pota-to bee-tle
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Leptinotarsa juncta, a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States.

Inflected Forms

false potato beetles (plural)

Questions

What does false potato beetle mean?: Leptinotarsa juncta, a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States.

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