Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

velvet ant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: vel-vet ant
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wasp of the family Mutillidae with dense hair and whose wingless females resemble ants.

Inflected Forms

velvet ants (plural)

Questions

What does velvet ant mean?: A wasp of the family Mutillidae with dense hair and whose wingless females resemble ants.

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