kookaburra

Questions about kookaburra

What does kookaburra mean?

kookaburra means "Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry".

How many syllables are in kookaburra?

kookaburra has 4 syllables and divides as koo-ka-bur-ra 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 kookaburra?

Close synonyms include laughing jackass, Dacelo gigas. 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 kookaburra a common word?

kookaburra 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.