felid

Other forms of felid

plural

felids·

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 felid

What does felid mean?

felid means "any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws".

How many syllables are in felid?

felid has 2 syllables: fe-lid. The stress falls on "fe".

What is another word for felid?

Close synonyms include feline. 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 felid a common word?

felid 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.