equine

Other forms of equine

plural

equines·

comparative

equiner·

superlative

equinest·

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 equine

What does equine mean?

equine means "resembling a horse". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equine?

equine has 2 syllables: eq-uine. The stress falls on "eq". In IPA it is /ˈiˌkwaɪn/.

What is another word for equine?

Close synonyms include equid. 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 equine a common word?

equine 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.

What rhymes with equine?

1 word rhymes with equine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.