margay

Questions about margay

What does margay mean?

margay means "small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil".

How many syllables are in margay?

margay has 2 syllables and divides as mar-gay 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 margay?

Close synonyms include margay cat, Felis wiedi. 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 margay a common word?

margay 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.