cockatiel

Questions about cockatiel

What does cockatiel mean?

cockatiel means "small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head".

How many syllables are in cockatiel?

cockatiel has 3 syllables and divides as coc-ka-tiel 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 cockatiel?

Close synonyms include cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus. 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 cockatiel a common word?

cockatiel 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.