alpaca

Other forms of alpaca

plural

alpacas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alpaca

What does alpaca mean?

alpaca means "wool of the alpaca". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alpaca?

alpaca has 3 syllables: al-pac-a. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /ælˈpækə/.

What is another word for alpaca?

Close synonyms include Lama pacos. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpaca a common word?

alpaca is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.