caribou

Other forms of caribou

plural

caribous·

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 caribou

What does caribou mean?

caribou means "Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America".

How many syllables are in caribou?

caribou has 3 syllables: car-i-bou. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹɪˌbu/.

What is another word for caribou?

Close synonyms include reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus. 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 caribou a common word?

caribou 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 caribou?

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