marabout

Other forms of marabout

plural

marabouts·

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 marabout

What does marabout mean?

marabout means "large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments".

How many syllables are in marabout?

marabout has 3 syllables and divides as ma-ra-bout 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 marabout?

Close synonyms include marabou, 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 marabout a common word?

marabout 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.