cacomistle

Other forms of cacomistle

plural

cacomistles·

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 cacomistle

What does cacomistle mean?

cacomistle means "raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings".

How many syllables are in cacomistle?

cacomistle has 4 syllables and divides as ca-co-mis-tle 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 cacomistle?

Close synonyms include bassarisk, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail. 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 cacomistle a common word?

cacomistle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.