gerbille

Other forms of gerbille

plural

gerbilles·

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 gerbille

What does gerbille mean?

gerbille means "small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping".

How many syllables are in gerbille?

gerbille has 3 syllables and divides as ger-bi-lle 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 gerbille?

Close synonyms include gerbil. 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 gerbille a common word?

gerbille 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.