pewit

Other forms of pewit

plural

pewits·

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 pewit

What does pewit mean?

pewit means "small black-headed European gull". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pewit?

pewit has 2 syllables and divides as pe-wit under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pewit?

Close synonyms include laughing gull, blackcap, pewit gull, Larus ridibundus, lapwing. 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 pewit a common word?

pewit 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.