flycatcher

Other forms of flycatcher

plural

flycatchers·

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 flycatcher

What does flycatcher mean?

flycatcher means "any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flycatcher?

flycatcher has 3 syllables: fly-cat-cher. The stress falls on "fly". In IPA it is /ˈflaɪˌkætʃɚ/.

What is another word for flycatcher?

Close synonyms include Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, New World flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird. 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 flycatcher a common word?

flycatcher 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 flycatcher?

1 word rhymes with flycatcher. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.