goosander

Questions about goosander

What does goosander mean?

goosander means "common merganser of Europe and North America".

How many syllables are in goosander?

goosander has 3 syllables and divides as goo-san-der 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 goosander?

Close synonyms include Mergus merganser. 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 goosander a common word?

goosander 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.