nightingale

Other forms of nightingale

plural

nightingales·

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 nightingale

What does nightingale mean?

nightingale means "European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nightingale?

nightingale has 3 syllables: nigh-ti-ngale. The stress falls on "nigh". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/.

What is another word for nightingale?

Close synonyms include Luscinia megarhynchos, Florence Nightingale, Lady with the Lamp. 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 nightingale a common word?

nightingale is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.