cottar

Other forms of cottar

plural

cottars·

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 cottar

What does cottar mean?

cottar means "a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cottar?

cottar has 2 syllables: cot-tar. The stress falls on "cot".

What is another word for cottar?

Close synonyms include cotter, cotter. 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 cottar a common word?

cottar 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.