swallowtail

Questions about swallowtail

What does swallowtail mean?

swallowtail means "a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back".

How many syllables are in swallowtail?

swallowtail has 3 syllables and divides as swal-low-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 swallowtail?

Close synonyms include swallow-tailed coat, morning coat. 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 swallowtail a common word?

swallowtail 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.