Synonyms for mouse

Most common

vole

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

   Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)

2. n. 2

   Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail. Such a rodent that is of the genus Mus.

Related words

Word family

mousebird mouse-colored mousedom mouse-ear mousefall mouse-hearted mousehood mousekin

Phrases

country mouse mouse mat wood mouse pouched mouse brush-tailed mouse clit mouse dust mouse field mouse

Is a kind of

rodent muroid myomorph myodont mammal

Forms

Plural

mouses → murines, voles, murids, shiners…

Example sentences

• vole Help me finish building this vole ladder and I'll treat you to dinner.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

lass¹, vole

5 letters

murid

6 letters

shiner², murine²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shiner² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

souris

Español

ratón

Deutsch

Maus