bonnethead

Questions about bonnethead

What does bonnethead mean?

bonnethead means "small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries".

How many syllables are in bonnethead?

bonnethead has 4 syllables and divides as bon-ne-the-ad 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 bonnethead?

Close synonyms include shovelhead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo. 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 bonnethead a common word?

bonnethead 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.