chinchilla

Other forms of chinchilla

plural

chinchillas·

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 chinchilla

What does chinchilla mean?

chinchilla means "the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chinchilla?

chinchilla has 3 syllables: chin-chil-la. The stress falls on "chil". In IPA it is /tʃɪnˈtʃɪlə/.

What is another word for chinchilla?

Close synonyms include Chinchilla laniger. 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 chinchilla a common word?

chinchilla 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.