grackle

Other forms of grackle

plural

grackles·

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 grackle

What does grackle mean?

grackle means "glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grackle?

grackle has 2 syllables: grac-kle. The stress falls on "grac". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹækəl/.

What is another word for grackle?

Close synonyms include hill myna, Indian grackle, Gracula religiosa, crow blackbird. 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 grackle a common word?

grackle 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.