pewee

Other forms of pewee

plural

pewees·

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 pewee

What does pewee mean?

pewee means "small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America".

How many syllables are in pewee?

pewee has 2 syllables: pe-wee. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for pewee?

Close synonyms include peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens. 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 pewee a common word?

pewee 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.