mammut

Questions about mammut

What does mammut mean?

mammut means "extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons".

How many syllables are in mammut?

mammut has 2 syllables and divides as mam-mut 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 mammut?

Close synonyms include genus Mammut, genus Mastodon. 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 mammut a common word?

mammut 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.