moorfowl

Other forms of moorfowl

plural

moorfowls·

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 moorfowl

What does moorfowl mean?

moorfowl means "reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain".

How many syllables are in moorfowl?

moorfowl has 2 syllables and divides as moor-fowl 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 moorfowl?

Close synonyms include red grouse, moorbird, moor-bird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus. 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 moorfowl a common word?

moorfowl 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.