peahen

1. 1.

   female peafowl

   Broaderpeafowl

Other forms of peahen

plural

peahens·

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 peahen

What does peahen mean?

peahen means "female peafowl".

How many syllables are in peahen?

peahen has 3 syllables: pe-a-hen. The stress falls on "pe".

Is peahen a common word?

peahen 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.