anteater

Other forms of anteater

plural

anteaters·

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 anteater

What does anteater mean?

anteater means "toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anteater?

anteater has 3 syllables: an-tea-ter. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænˌtitɚ/.

What is another word for anteater?

Close synonyms include pangolin, scaly anteater, New World anteater, aardvark, ant bear. 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 anteater a common word?

anteater 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.

What rhymes with anteater?

1 word rhymes with anteater. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.