porzana

Questions about porzana

What does porzana mean?

porzana means "spotted crakes".

How many syllables are in porzana?

porzana has 3 syllables and divides as por-za-na 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 porzana?

Close synonyms include genus Porzana. 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 porzana a common word?

porzana 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.