dassie

Other forms of dassie

plural

dassies·

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 dassie

What does dassie mean?

dassie means "any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes".

How many syllables are in dassie?

dassie has 2 syllables and divides as das-sie 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 dassie?

Close synonyms include hyrax, coney, cony, das. 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 dassie a common word?

dassie 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.