Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water deer

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter deer
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.

Synonyms

water chevrotain hyemoschus aquaticus

Questions

What does water deer mean?: Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.

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