tigress

1. 1.

   a female tiger

   Broadertiger

Other forms of tigress

plural

tigresses·

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 tigress

What does tigress mean?

tigress means "a female tiger".

How many syllables are in tigress?

tigress has 2 syllables: ti-gress. The stress falls on "ti".

Is tigress a common word?

tigress 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.