fledgeling

1. 1.

   (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers

   “a fledgling robin”

   Synonymsfledgling

   Similarfledged

Other forms of fledgeling

plural

fledgelings·

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 fledgeling

What does fledgeling mean?

fledgeling means "any new participant in some activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fledgeling?

fledgeling has 3 syllables: fled-ge-ling. The stress falls on "fled".

What is another word for fledgeling?

Close synonyms include newcomer, fledgling, starter, neophyte, freshman. 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 fledgeling a common word?

fledgeling 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.