cattle

Other forms of cattle

plural

cattle(unchanged)

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 cattle

What does cattle mean?

cattle means "domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age".

How many syllables are in cattle?

cattle has 2 syllables: cat-tle. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætəl/.

What is another word for cattle?

Close synonyms include cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus. 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 cattle a common word?

cattle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.