porphyrula

Questions about porphyrula

What does porphyrula mean?

porphyrula means "American purple gallinules".

How many syllables are in porphyrula?

porphyrula has 4 syllables and divides as por-phy-ru-la 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 porphyrula?

Close synonyms include genus Porphyrula. 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 porphyrula a common word?

porphyrula 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.