cougar

Other forms of cougar

plural

cougars·

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 cougar

What does cougar mean?

cougar means "large American feline resembling a lion".

How many syllables are in cougar?

cougar has 2 syllables: cou-gar. The stress falls on "cou". In IPA it is /ˈkuɡɚ/.

What is another word for cougar?

Close synonyms include puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther. 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 cougar a common word?

cougar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.