razorbill

Questions about razorbill

What does razorbill mean?

razorbill means "black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill".

How many syllables are in razorbill?

razorbill has 3 syllables and divides as ra-zor-bill 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 razorbill?

Close synonyms include razor-billed auk, Alca torda. 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 razorbill a common word?

razorbill 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.