wildcat
nounHow many syllables in wildcat?
There are 2 syllables in the word wildcat.How to pronounce wildcat:
Definition of wildcat:
- wildcat (noun):
- an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field.
- an old world cat (felis silvestris) that resembles but is heavier in build than the domestic tabby cat and is usually held to be among the ancestors of the domestic cat
Synonyms for wildcat:
beast
brute
oil well
oiler
savage
wildcat well
wolf
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- tenants
- Petra
- Nuren
- jostling
- howbeit
- blowball
- Ikea
- snorting
- oleine
- cogent
- bingo
- torment
- streamer
- Melvin
- deadly
- boltrope
- ambush
- unscathed
- rather
- rarest
- quota
- meager
- shogun
- potluck
- neighbour
- flirter
- trusty
- snappy
- shalom
- newly
- migraine
- thrusted
- urchin
- roaring
- portal
- whole note
- duteous
- diverse
- avenge
- archaic
- Ila
- eldest
- saddest
- praline
- softly
- pronoun
- un-strict
- unite
- union
- seagull
- … more
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