cheewink

Questions about cheewink

What does cheewink mean?

cheewink means "common towhee of eastern North America".

How many syllables are in cheewink?

cheewink has 2 syllables and divides as chee-wink 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 cheewink?

Close synonyms include chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. 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 cheewink a common word?

cheewink is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.