butcherbird

Other forms of butcherbird

plural

butcherbirds·

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 butcherbird

What does butcherbird mean?

butcherbird means "shrikes that impale their prey on thorns". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butcherbird?

butcherbird has 3 syllables: but-cher-bird. The stress falls on "but".

Is butcherbird a common word?

butcherbird 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.