raccoon

Other forms of raccoon

plural

raccoons·

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 raccoon

What does raccoon mean?

raccoon means "the fur of the North American racoon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raccoon?

raccoon has 2 syllables: rac-coon. The stress falls on "coon". In IPA it is /ɹæˈkun/.

What is another word for raccoon?

Close synonyms include racoon. 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 raccoon a common word?

raccoon 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 raccoon?

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