peacock

Other forms of peacock

plural

peacocks·

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 peacock

What does peacock mean?

peacock means "European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peacock?

peacock has 2 syllables: pea-cock. The stress falls on "pea". In IPA it is /ˈpiˌkɑk/.

What is another word for peacock?

Close synonyms include peacock butterfly, Inachis io. 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 peacock a common word?

peacock 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.

What rhymes with peacock?

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