capercailzie

Questions about capercailzie

What does capercailzie mean?

capercailzie means "large black Old World grouse".

How many syllables are in capercailzie?

capercailzie has 4 syllables: ca-per-cail-zie. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for capercailzie?

Close synonyms include capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus. 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 capercailzie a common word?

capercailzie 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.