peewit

Other forms of peewit

plural

peewits·

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 peewit

What does peewit mean?

peewit means "large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peewit?

peewit has 2 syllables: pee-wit. The stress falls on "pee".

What is another word for peewit?

Close synonyms include lapwing, green plover, pewit, pewee, peewee. 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 peewit a common word?

peewit 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.