mouflon

Questions about mouflon

What does mouflon mean?

mouflon means "wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia".

How many syllables are in mouflon?

mouflon has 2 syllables and divides as mou-flon 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 mouflon?

Close synonyms include moufflon, Ovis musimon. 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 mouflon a common word?

mouflon 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.