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blacksnake

UK /ˈblaksneɪk/noun, verb

blacksnake is spelled B-L-A-C-K-S-N-A-K-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blacksnake means “Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blacksnake is blacksnakes.

How many letters and syllables are in blacksnake?

Letters10: B-L-A-C-K-S-N-A-K-E
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is blacksnake?

Blacksnake appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce blacksnake?

  • UK /ˈblaksneɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-blacksnake.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of blacksnake

  • blacksnakes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • black-snake
  • blacksnaking participle, present
  • blacksnaked participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blacksnake mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.

  2. 2

    USA long, tapering whip.

  3. 3

    slangvulgarA penis, especially a black penis.

verb

  1. 1

    To whip with a long, tapering whip.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does blacksnake come from?

From black + snake.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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