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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sanderling is a noun meaning "small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world". It carries one recorded sense.
small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sanderling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.