coydog

1. 1.

   offspring of a coyote and a dog

   Broadercoyote

Other forms of coydog

plural

coydogs·

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 coydog

What does coydog mean?

coydog means "offspring of a coyote and a dog".

How many syllables are in coydog?

coydog has 2 syllables: coy-dog. The stress falls on "coy".

Is coydog a common word?

coydog 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.