pelage

Questions about pelage

What does pelage mean?

pelage means "growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal".

How many syllables are in pelage?

pelage has 2 syllables and divides as pe-lage 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 pelage?

Close synonyms include coat. 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 pelage a common word?

pelage 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.