nighthawk

Other forms of nighthawk

plural

nighthawks·

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 nighthawk

What does nighthawk mean?

nighthawk means "a person who likes to be active late at night". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nighthawk?

nighthawk has 2 syllables: nigh-thawk. The stress falls on "nigh". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪtˌhɔk/.

What is another word for nighthawk?

Close synonyms include night owl, nightbird, bullbat, mosquito hawk. 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 nighthawk a common word?

nighthawk 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 nighthawk?

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