opossum

Other forms of opossum

plural

opossums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about opossum

What does opossum mean?

opossum means "small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opossum?

opossum has 3 syllables: o-pos-sum. The stress falls on "pos". In IPA it is /oʊˈpɑsəm/.

What is another word for opossum?

Close synonyms include phalanger, possum, possum. 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 opossum a common word?

opossum 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.

What rhymes with opossum?

1 word rhymes with opossum. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.