quill

Other forms of quill

plural

quills·

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 quill

What does quill mean?

quill means "pen made from a bird's feather". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quill?

quill has 1 syllable: quill. In IPA it is /ˈkwɪl/.

What is another word for quill?

Close synonyms include quill pen, flight feather, pinion, quill feather, calamus. 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 quill a common word?

quill 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.