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wild cat

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables
wild -cat
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.

noun

A feral cat.

noun

Alternative form of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.

noun

Alternative form of wildcat in its other extended senses.

Etymology

From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

wild cats (plural) wild-cat (alternative, uncommon) wildcat (alternative, uncommon)

Synonyms

big cat great cat

Antonyms

domestic cat domesticated cat house cat

Questions

What does wild cat mean?
An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
Where does wild cat come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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