mammal
mam·mal/ˈmæməl/noun
mammal is spelled M-A-M-M-A-L, 2 syllables: mam·mal. The wrong spelling people search most is mamal: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Mammal is a noun meaning “A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and…”. The plural of mammal is mammals.
How many letters and syllables are in mammal?
| Letters | 6: M-A-M-M-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mam·mal |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mamal, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell mammal?
Mammal is spelled M-A-M-M-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for mammal in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is mammal?
Mammal appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 mammal?
- US /ˈmæməl/
Mammal has 2 syllables, split mam·mal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mammal.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mammal?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mammal from its last stressed vowel (/æməl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mammal
- mammals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mammal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young.
- 2
A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mammal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense animal of the class Mammalia:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mammal come from?
Borrowed from Latin mammal, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).