greyhen

Questions about greyhen

What does greyhen mean?

greyhen means "female black grouse".

How many syllables are in greyhen?

greyhen has 2 syllables and divides as grey-hen 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 greyhen?

Close synonyms include grayhen, grey hen, gray hen, heath hen. 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 greyhen a common word?

greyhen 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.