pintail

1. 1.

   long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers

   Synonymspin-tailed duckAnas acuta

   Broaderduck

   Part ofAnas

Other forms of pintail

plural

pintails·

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 pintail

What does pintail mean?

pintail means "long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers".

How many syllables are in pintail?

pintail has 2 syllables and divides as pin-tail 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 pintail?

Close synonyms include pin-tailed duck, Anas acuta. 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 pintail a common word?

pintail 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.