carcajou

Questions about carcajou

What does carcajou mean?

carcajou means "stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal".

How many syllables are in carcajou?

carcajou has 3 syllables and divides as car-ca-jou 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 carcajou?

Close synonyms include wolverine, skunk bear, Gulo luscus. 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 carcajou a common word?

carcajou 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.