antelope

Other forms of antelope

plural

antelopes·

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 antelope

What does antelope mean?

antelope means "graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks".

How many syllables are in antelope?

antelope has 3 syllables: an-te-lope. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæntəˌloʊp/.

Is antelope a common word?

antelope is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 antelope?

4 words rhyme with antelope. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.