Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wallcrawler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wall-crawler
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces

Example Sentences

"This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance."
"When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler."
"Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created."

Etymology

From wall + crawler.

Inflected Forms

wallcrawlers (plural) wall-crawler (alternative) wall crawler (alternative)

Questions

What does wallcrawler mean?: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
Where does wallcrawler come from?: From wall + crawler.

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