aoudad

Other forms of aoudad

plural

aoudads·

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 aoudad

What does aoudad mean?

aoudad means "wild sheep of northern Africa".

How many syllables are in aoudad?

aoudad has 2 syllables: aou-dad. The stress falls on "aou".

What is another word for aoudad?

Close synonyms include arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep, Ammotragus lervia. 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 aoudad a common word?

aoudad 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.