mounties

Questions about mounties

What does mounties mean?

mounties means "the federal police force of Canada".

How many syllables are in mounties?

mounties has 2 syllables: moun-ties. The stress falls on "moun". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊntiz/.

What is another word for mounties?

Close synonyms include Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP. 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 mounties a common word?

mounties is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.