spermophile

Other forms of spermophile

plural

spermophiles·

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 spermophile

What does spermophile mean?

spermophile means "any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops".

How many syllables are in spermophile?

spermophile has 4 syllables: sper-mo-phi-le. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for spermophile?

Close synonyms include ground squirrel, gopher. 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 spermophile a common word?

spermophile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.