bobwhite

Questions about bobwhite

What does bobwhite mean?

bobwhite means "a popular North American game bird; named for its call".

How many syllables are in bobwhite?

bobwhite has 2 syllables and divides as bob-white 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 bobwhite?

Close synonyms include bobwhite quail, partridge. 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 bobwhite a common word?

bobwhite 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.