chirrup

Other forms of chirrup

plural

chirrups·

past tense

chirrupped·

present participle

chirrupping·

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 chirrup

What does chirrup mean?

chirrup means "a series of chirps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chirrup?

chirrup has 2 syllables: chir-rup. The stress falls on "chir".

What is another word for chirrup?

Close synonyms include twitter, peep, cheep, chirp. 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 chirrup a common word?

chirrup 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.