fringilla

Questions about fringilla

What does fringilla mean?

fringilla means "type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling".

How many syllables are in fringilla?

fringilla has 3 syllables and divides as frin-gil-la under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fringilla?

Close synonyms include genus Fringilla. 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 fringilla a common word?

fringilla is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.