tacamahac

Questions about tacamahac

What does tacamahac mean?

tacamahac means "poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves".

How many syllables are in tacamahac?

tacamahac has 4 syllables and divides as ta-ca-ma-hac 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 tacamahac?

Close synonyms include balsam poplar, hackmatack, Populus balsamifera. 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 tacamahac a common word?

tacamahac 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.