long-legs

Questions about long-legs

What does long-legs mean?

long-legs means "long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons".

How many syllables are in long-legs?

long-legs has 2 syllables and divides as lon-g-legs 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 long-legs?

Close synonyms include stilt, stiltbird, longlegs, stilt plover, Himantopus stilt. 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 long-legs a common word?

long-legs 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.