reindeer

Other forms of reindeer

plural

reindeer(unchanged)

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 reindeer

What does reindeer mean?

reindeer means "Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America".

How many syllables are in reindeer?

reindeer has 2 syllables: rein-deer. The stress falls on "rein". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪnˌdɪɹ/.

What is another word for reindeer?

Close synonyms include caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus. 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 reindeer a common word?

reindeer 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 reindeer?

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