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longtail

noun

longtail is spelled L-O-N-G-T-A-I-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, longtail means “Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of longtail is longtails.

How many letters and syllables are in longtail?

Letters8: L-O-N-G-T-A-I-L
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is longtail?

Longtail appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce longtail?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-longtail.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of longtail

  • longtails plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does longtail mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.

  2. 2

    Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird.

  3. 3

    A young, unattached female tourist.

  4. 4

    A longtail boat.

  5. 5

    colloquialA rat.

  6. 6

    slangA pheasant.

  7. 7

    slangA greyhound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does longtail come from?

From long + tail.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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