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bladderwort

noun

bladderwort is spelled B-L-A-D-D-E-R-W-O-R-T: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bladderwort means “Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bladderwort is bladderworts.

How many letters and syllables are in bladderwort?

Letters11: B-L-A-D-D-E-R-W-O-R-T
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th 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 bladderwort?

Bladderwort appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).

Forms of bladderwort

  • bladderworts plural

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

What does bladderwort mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans.

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

Bladderwort in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Utricularia:

LanguageWords
Frenchutriculaire
GermanWasserschlauch

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bladderwort come from?

From bladder + wort.

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

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