poultry

Other forms of poultry

plural

poultries·

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 poultry

What does poultry mean?

poultry means "a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poultry?

poultry has 2 syllables: poul-try. The stress falls on "poul". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊltɹi/.

What is another word for poultry?

Close synonyms include domestic fowl, fowl. 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 poultry a common word?

poultry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.