eider

Questions about eider

What does eider mean?

eider means "duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females".

How many syllables are in eider?

eider has 2 syllables and divides as ei-der 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 eider?

Close synonyms include eider duck. 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 eider a common word?

eider 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.