falcon

1. 1.

   hunt with falcons

   “The tribes like to falcon in the desert”

   Broaderhunt

Other forms of falcon

plural

falcons·

past tense

falconned·

present participle

falconning·

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 falcon

What does falcon mean?

falcon means "diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in falcon?

falcon has 2 syllables: fal-con. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfælkən/.

Is falcon a common word?

falcon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.