Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tiger cat

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables: tiger -cat
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several species of felids:

noun

Any of several species of felids:

noun

Any of several species of felids:

noun

Any of several species of felids:

noun

A tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus).

Australian usage

noun

A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).

Example Sentences

"A capacious room […] slowly appeared around me, large enough to accommodate perhaps twenty people, though presently home only to two potaroos & one tiger cat which had scampered out after I entered."

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

tiger cats (plural)

Synonyms

felis tigrina

Questions

What does tiger cat mean?: Any of several species of felids:

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