catamountain

Questions about catamountain

What does catamountain mean?

catamountain means "bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat".

How many syllables are in catamountain?

catamountain has 4 syllables and divides as ca-ta-moun-tain 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 catamountain?

Close synonyms include European wildcat, Felis silvestris. 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 catamountain a common word?

catamountain 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.