puma

Other forms of puma

plural

pumas·

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 puma

What does puma mean?

puma means "large American feline resembling a lion".

How many syllables are in puma?

puma has 2 syllables: pu-ma. The stress falls on "pu". In IPA it is /ˈpumə/.

What is another word for puma?

Close synonyms include cougar, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther. 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 puma a common word?

puma 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.