tapir

Questions about tapir

What does tapir mean?

tapir means "large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout".

How many syllables are in tapir?

tapir has 2 syllables and divides as ta-pir 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.

Is tapir a common word?

tapir 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.