carcharias

Questions about carcharias

What does carcharias mean?

carcharias means "type and sole genus of Carchariidae: sand sharks".

How many syllables are in carcharias?

carcharias has 4 syllables and divides as car-cha-ri-as 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 carcharias?

Close synonyms include genus Carcharias, Odontaspis, genus Odontaspis. 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 carcharias a common word?

carcharias 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.