goatsucker

Other forms of goatsucker

plural

goatsuckers·

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 goatsucker

What does goatsucker mean?

goatsucker means "mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects".

How many syllables are in goatsucker?

goatsucker has 4 syllables: go-at-suc-ker. The stress falls on "at".

What is another word for goatsucker?

Close synonyms include nightjar, caprimulgid. 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 goatsucker a common word?

goatsucker 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.