wapiti

Other forms of wapiti

plural

wapitis·

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 wapiti

What does wapiti mean?

wapiti means "large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wapiti?

wapiti has 3 syllables: wa-pi-ti. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /wəˈpiti/.

What is another word for wapiti?

Close synonyms include elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, red deer, elk. 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 wapiti a common word?

wapiti 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.