bullbat

Questions about bullbat

What does bullbat mean?

bullbat means "mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker".

How many syllables are in bullbat?

bullbat has 2 syllables and divides as bull-bat 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 bullbat?

Close synonyms include nighthawk, mosquito hawk. 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 bullbat a common word?

bullbat 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.