spaniel

Other forms of spaniel

plural

spaniels·

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 spaniel

What does spaniel mean?

spaniel means "any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears".

How many syllables are in spaniel?

spaniel has 2 syllables: span-iel. The stress falls on "span". In IPA it is /ˈspænjəl/.

Is spaniel a common word?

spaniel 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.