grassfinch

Questions about grassfinch

What does grassfinch mean?

grassfinch means "usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds".

How many syllables are in grassfinch?

grassfinch has 2 syllables and divides as grass-finch 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 grassfinch?

Close synonyms include grass finch. 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 grassfinch a common word?

grassfinch 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.