eyrie

Other forms of eyrie

plural

eyries·

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 eyrie

What does eyrie mean?

eyrie means "the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eyrie?

eyrie has 2 syllables: eyr-ie. The stress falls on "eyr". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹi/.

What is another word for eyrie?

Close synonyms include aerie, aery, eyry, aerie, aery. 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 eyrie a common word?

eyrie 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.

What rhymes with eyrie?

21 words rhyme with eyrie. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.