audad

Other forms of audad

plural

audads·

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 audad

What does audad mean?

audad means "wild sheep of northern Africa".

How many syllables are in audad?

audad has 2 syllables and divides as au-dad under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for audad?

Close synonyms include aoudad, arui, 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 audad a common word?

audad 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.