porcupine

Questions about porcupine

What does porcupine mean?

porcupine means "relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur".

How many syllables are in porcupine?

porcupine has 3 syllables: por-cu-pine. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹkjəˌpaɪn/.

What is another word for porcupine?

Close synonyms include hedgehog. 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 porcupine a common word?

porcupine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 porcupine?

6 words rhyme with porcupine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.