picidae

Questions about picidae

What does picidae mean?

picidae means "woodpeckers".

How many syllables are in picidae?

picidae has 3 syllables and divides as pi-ci-dae 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 picidae?

Close synonyms include family Picidae. 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 picidae a common word?

picidae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.