heard as two words
Heard as lycop odium
One word, and the break is in the wrong place: lycopodium.
heard as two words
Five syllables is more than the ear will hold as a single unit, so it looks for a seam. Here it finds one after the p, which leaves lycop, and lycop is not a word in any language. The actual join is one letter earlier. Lyco is the wolf and podium is the foot, and the p that the ear wants to keep at the end of the first half is the letter that starts the second.
The class
A long name breaking where the ear thinks it hears a gap.
Same name
Other spellings recorded for lycopodium
The name