nuthatch

Other forms of nuthatch

plural

nuthatches·

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 nuthatch

What does nuthatch mean?

nuthatch means "any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects".

How many syllables are in nuthatch?

nuthatch has 2 syllables: nu-thatch. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for nuthatch?

Close synonyms include nutcracker. 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 nuthatch a common word?

nuthatch 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.