cottontail

Other forms of cottontail

plural

cottontails·

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 cottontail

What does cottontail mean?

cottontail means "common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)".

How many syllables are in cottontail?

cottontail has 3 syllables and divides as cot-ton-tail 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 cottontail?

Close synonyms include wood rabbit, cottontail rabbit. 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 cottontail a common word?

cottontail 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.