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say it: KAH-kuh-too
cockatoo is a noun meaning "white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds". It is pronounced /ˈkɑkəˌtu/ — KAH-kuh-too. It carries one recorded sense.
white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cockatoo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.