potto

Other forms of potto

plural

pottoes·

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 potto

What does potto mean?

potto means "arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potto?

potto has 2 syllables and divides as pot-to 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 potto?

Close synonyms include kinkajou, honey bear, Potos flavus, Potos caudivolvulus, kinkajou. 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 potto a common word?

potto 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.