quack-quack

1. 1.

   child's word for a duck

   Broaderduck

Questions about quack-quack

What does quack-quack mean?

quack-quack means "child's word for a duck".

How many syllables are in quack-quack?

quack-quack has 2 syllables and divides as quack-q-uack 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.

Is quack-quack a common word?

quack-quack 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.