Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mosquito-eater

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: mosquito-eater
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Colloquial

Etymology

From mosquito + eater, from the false notion that they eat mosquitoes.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

mosquito-eaters (plural) mosquito eater (alternative)

Questions

What does mosquito-eater mean?: A cranefly.
Where does mosquito-eater come from?: From mosquito + eater, from the false notion that they eat mosquitoes.

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