catamount

Other forms of catamount

plural

catamounts·

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 catamount

What does catamount mean?

catamount means "short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catamount?

catamount has 3 syllables: cat-a-mount. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætəˌmaʊnt/.

What is another word for catamount?

Close synonyms include lynx, cougar, puma, mountain lion, painter. 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 catamount a common word?

catamount 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.

What rhymes with catamount?

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