Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

worker bee

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: work-er bee
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.

Example Sentences

"Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from."

Inflected Forms

worker bees (plural)

Questions

What does worker bee mean?: A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.

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