magpie

Other forms of magpie

plural

magpies·

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 magpie

What does magpie mean?

magpie means "long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in magpie?

magpie has 2 syllables: mag-pie. The stress falls on "mag". In IPA it is /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/.

What is another word for magpie?

Close synonyms include scavenger, pack rat, chatterer, babbler, prater. 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 magpie a common word?

magpie 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.

What rhymes with magpie?

5 words rhyme with magpie. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.