tabby

Other forms of tabby

plural

tabbies·

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 tabby

What does tabby mean?

tabby means "a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tabby?

tabby has 2 syllables: tab-by. The stress falls on "tab". In IPA it is /ˈtæbi/.

What is another word for tabby?

Close synonyms include tabby cat, queen, brindled, brindle, brinded. 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 tabby a common word?

tabby 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.