rallidae

Questions about rallidae

What does rallidae mean?

rallidae means "rails; crakes; gallinules; coots".

How many syllables are in rallidae?

rallidae has 3 syllables and divides as ral-li-dae 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 rallidae?

Close synonyms include family Rallidae. 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 rallidae a common word?

rallidae 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.