katydid
/ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/noun
katydid is a noun meaning “A cricket of the family Tettigoniidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-T-Y-D-I-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of katydid is katydids.
What does katydid mean?
noun
- 1
USA cricket of the family Tettigoniidae
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce katydid?
- US /ˈkeɪtiˌdɪd/
Katydid has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-katydid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of katydid
- katydids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is katydid?
Katydid appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Katydid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense orthopteran of the family Tettigoniidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sauterelle |
| German | Laubheuschrecke |
| Portuguese | tetigoniídeo, esperança |
| Spanish | saltamontes longicornio, esperanza |
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 katydid come from?
Onomatopoeic, from the sound a common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia) makes by stridulating. katydid song: (file)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).