coyote

Other forms of coyote

plural

coyotes·

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 coyote

What does coyote mean?

coyote means "small wolf native to western North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coyote?

coyote has 3 syllables: co-y-ote. The stress falls on "y". In IPA it is /kaɪˈoʊti/.

What is another word for coyote?

Close synonyms include prairie wolf, brush wolf, Canis latrans. 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 coyote a common word?

coyote 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.