bobcat

1. 1.

   small lynx of North America

   Synonymsbay lynxLynx rufus

   Broaderlynx

Other forms of bobcat

plural

bobcats·

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 bobcat

What does bobcat mean?

bobcat means "small lynx of North America".

How many syllables are in bobcat?

bobcat has 2 syllables: bob-cat. The stress falls on "bob". In IPA it is /ˈbɑbˌkæt/.

What is another word for bobcat?

Close synonyms include bay lynx, Lynx rufus. 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 bobcat a common word?

bobcat 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 bobcat?

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