alca

Questions about alca

What does alca mean?

alca means "type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill".

How many syllables are in alca?

alca has 2 syllables and divides as al-ca under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alca?

Close synonyms include genus Alca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alca a common word?

alca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.