kudu

Other forms of kudu

plural

kudus·

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 kudu

What does kudu mean?

kudu means "either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush".

How many syllables are in kudu?

kudu has 2 syllables: ku-du. The stress falls on "ku".

What is another word for kudu?

Close synonyms include koodoo, koudou. 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 kudu a common word?

kudu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.