Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thousand-legged worm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables: thou-sand--legged -worm
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

American usage

Example Sentences

"... a thousand-legged worm was squirming down my back just over the spinal column."
"[…] 149 stomaches examined […] showed 19 per cent of ants, 16 per cent of cut worms, 10 per cent of thousand-legged worms, 9 per cent of tent caterpillars, 8 per cent of ground beetles and other close allies, 6 per cent of May beetles and allies, 5 per cent of wire worm beetles and allies, 5 per cent of destructive weevils[…]"
"... a thousand-legged worm that one of the boys had stuck a pin through, to watch it writhe and bite itself behind the pin."

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

thousand-legged worms (plural)

Questions

What does thousand-legged worm mean?: A millipede.

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