mollusk
noun
mollusk is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of mollusc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-L-L-U-S-K and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mollusk is mollusks.
What does mollusk mean?
noun
- 1
USUS standard spelling of mollusc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mollusk?
- US
Mollusk has 2 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)-Flame,_not_lame-mollusk.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of mollusk
- mollusks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mollusk?
Mollusk appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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).