Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water bug

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables
wa-ter bug
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha of true water bugs.

noun

Any of various other true bugs that live around water.

noun

An American cockroach (Periplaneta americana).

noun

An oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

noun

Synonym of water strider.

Inflected Forms

water bugs (plural) waterbug (alternative)

Synonyms

water strider german cockroach croton bug crotonbug blattella germanica

Questions

What does water bug mean?
Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha of true water bugs.

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