heathfowl

What does heathfowl mean?

heathfowl means "large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail".

How many syllables are in heathfowl?

heathfowl has 3 syllables and divides as he-ath-fowl 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 heathfowl?

Close synonyms include European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix. 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 heathfowl a common word?

heathfowl 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heathfowl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.