pigtail

1. 1.

   a plait of braided hair

   Broaderbraid

Other forms of pigtail

plural

pigtails·

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 pigtail

What does pigtail mean?

pigtail means "a plait of braided hair".

How many syllables are in pigtail?

pigtail has 2 syllables: pig-tail. The stress falls on "pig".

Is pigtail a common word?

pigtail 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.