Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

velvet water bug

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: vel-vet wa-ter bug
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any insect in the family Hebridae, which lives in vegetation in and around water

Inflected Forms

velvet water bugs (plural)

Questions

What does velvet water bug mean?: Any insect in the family Hebridae, which lives in vegetation in and around water

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