ringtail

Other forms of ringtail

plural

ringtails·

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 ringtail

What does ringtail mean?

ringtail means "raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ringtail?

ringtail has 2 syllables and divides as ring-tail 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 ringtail?

Close synonyms include bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox. 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 ringtail a common word?

ringtail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.