lycanthrope

Questions about lycanthrope

What does lycanthrope mean?

lycanthrope means "a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again".

How many syllables are in lycanthrope?

lycanthrope has 3 syllables and divides as ly-can-thrope 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 lycanthrope?

Close synonyms include werewolf, wolfman, loup-garou. 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 lycanthrope a common word?

lycanthrope 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.