peafowl

Other forms of peafowl

plural

peafowls·

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 peafowl

What does peafowl mean?

peafowl means "very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird".

How many syllables are in peafowl?

peafowl has 2 syllables: pea-fowl. The stress falls on "pea". In IPA it is /ˈpiˌfaʊl/.

What is another word for peafowl?

Close synonyms include bird of Juno. 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 peafowl a common word?

peafowl 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.

What rhymes with peafowl?

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