phalanger

Other forms of phalanger

plural

phalangers·

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 phalanger

What does phalanger mean?

phalanger means "small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails".

How many syllables are in phalanger?

phalanger has 3 syllables: pha-lan-ger. The stress falls on "pha".

What is another word for phalanger?

Close synonyms include opossum, 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 phalanger a common word?

phalanger 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.