bullfinch

Other forms of bullfinch

plural

bullfinches·

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 bullfinch

What does bullfinch mean?

bullfinch means "United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bullfinch?

bullfinch has 2 syllables: bull-finch. The stress falls on "bull".

What is another word for bullfinch?

Close synonyms include Charles Bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula. 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 bullfinch a common word?

bullfinch 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.