reptile

Other forms of reptile

plural

reptiles·

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 reptile

What does reptile mean?

reptile means "any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms".

How many syllables are in reptile?

reptile has 2 syllables: re-ptile. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛptaɪl/.

What is another word for reptile?

Close synonyms include reptilian. 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 reptile a common word?

reptile 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.