gorilla

Other forms of gorilla

plural

gorillas·

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 gorilla

What does gorilla mean?

gorilla means "largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa".

How many syllables are in gorilla?

gorilla has 3 syllables: go-ril-la. The stress falls on "ril". In IPA it is /ɡɚˈɪlə/.

What is another word for gorilla?

Close synonyms include Gorilla gorilla. 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 gorilla a common word?

gorilla 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.

What rhymes with gorilla?

2 words rhyme with gorilla. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.