whiptail

Other forms of whiptail

plural

whiptails·

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 whiptail

What does whiptail mean?

whiptail means "any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards".

How many syllables are in whiptail?

whiptail has 2 syllables and divides as whip-tail 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 whiptail?

Close synonyms include whiptail lizard. 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 whiptail a common word?

whiptail 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.