dunnock

Questions about dunnock

What does dunnock mean?

dunnock means "small brownish European songbird".

How many syllables are in dunnock?

dunnock has 2 syllables and divides as dun-nock 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 dunnock?

Close synonyms include hedge sparrow, sparrow, Prunella modularis. 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 dunnock a common word?

dunnock 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.