caterwaul

Questions about caterwaul

What does caterwaul mean?

caterwaul means "the yowling sound made by a cat in heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caterwaul?

caterwaul has 3 syllables: cat-er-waul. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætɚwɑl/.

What is another word for caterwaul?

Close synonyms include yowl. 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 caterwaul a common word?

caterwaul 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.