leipoa

Other forms of leipoa

plural

leipoas·

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 leipoa

What does leipoa mean?

leipoa means "Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds".

How many syllables are in leipoa?

leipoa has 3 syllables: le-i-poa. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for leipoa?

Close synonyms include mallee fowl, lowan, Leipoa ocellata. 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 leipoa a common word?

leipoa 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.