catbird

Other forms of catbird

plural

catbirds·

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 catbird

What does catbird mean?

catbird means "any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catbird?

catbird has 2 syllables: cat-bird. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætˌbɝd/.

What is another word for catbird?

Close synonyms include bowerbird, grey catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis. 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 catbird a common word?

catbird 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.

What rhymes with catbird?

13 words rhyme with catbird. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.