budgerygah

Other forms of budgerygah

plural

budgerygahs·

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 budgerygah

What does budgerygah mean?

budgerygah 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 budgerygah?

budgerygah has 4 syllables: bud-ge-ry-gah. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for budgerygah?

Close synonyms include budgerigar, budgereegah, 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 budgerygah a common word?

budgerygah 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.