pipit

Questions about pipit

What does pipit mean?

pipit means "a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage".

How many syllables are in pipit?

pipit has 2 syllables and divides as pi-pit 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 pipit?

Close synonyms include titlark, lark. 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 pipit a common word?

pipit 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.