coati

Questions about coati

What does coati mean?

coati means "omnivorous mammal of Central America and South America".

How many syllables are in coati?

coati has 3 syllables and divides as co-a-ti 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 coati?

Close synonyms include coati-mondi, coati-mundi, coon cat, Nasua narica. 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 coati a common word?

coati 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.