marabou

Other forms of marabou

plural

marabous·

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 marabou

What does marabou mean?

marabou means "large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marabou?

marabou has 3 syllables: mar-a-bou. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɛɹəˌbu/.

What is another word for marabou?

Close synonyms include marabout, marabou stork, Leptoptilus crumeniferus. 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 marabou a common word?

marabou 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.

What rhymes with marabou?

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