peccary

Other forms of peccary

plural

peccaries·

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 peccary

What does peccary mean?

peccary means "nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America".

How many syllables are in peccary?

peccary has 3 syllables: pec-ca-ry. The stress falls on "pec".

What is another word for peccary?

Close synonyms include musk hog. 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 peccary a common word?

peccary 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.