Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

malagasy rat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables
mala-gasy rat
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any rat-like rodent of the subfamilies Nesomyinae, Cricetomyinae, and Mystromyinae, native to Madagascar.

Inflected Forms

Malagasy rats (plural)

Questions

What does malagasy rat mean?
Any rat-like rodent of the subfamilies Nesomyinae, Cricetomyinae, and Mystromyinae, native to Madagascar.

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