hatchling

1. 1.

   any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

   Broaderyoung

Other forms of hatchling

plural

hatchlings·

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 hatchling

What does hatchling mean?

hatchling means "any recently hatched animal (especially birds)".

How many syllables are in hatchling?

hatchling has 2 syllables and divides as hatch-ling 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.