cotinga

Other forms of cotinga

plural

cotingas·

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 cotinga

What does cotinga mean?

cotinga means "passerine bird of New World tropics".

How many syllables are in cotinga?

cotinga has 3 syllables: co-tin-ga. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cotinga?

Close synonyms include chatterer. 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 cotinga a common word?

cotinga 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.