fowl

1. 1.

   hunt fowl

   Broaderhunt
2. 2.

   hunt fowl in the forest

   Broaderhunt

   Narrowergrouse

Other forms of fowl

plural

fowls·

past tense

fowled·

present participle

fowling·

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 fowl

What does fowl mean?

fowl means "a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fowl?

fowl has 1 syllable: fowl. In IPA it is /ˈfaʊl/.

What is another word for fowl?

Close synonyms include domestic fowl, poultry, 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 fowl a common word?

fowl 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.

What rhymes with fowl?

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