budgerigar

Other forms of budgerigar

plural

budgerigars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about budgerigar

What does budgerigar mean?

budgerigar means "small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors".

How many syllables are in budgerigar?

budgerigar has 4 syllables and divides as bud-ge-ri-gar 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 budgerigar?

Close synonyms include budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird. 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 budgerigar a common word?

budgerigar 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.