sandpiper

Other forms of sandpiper

plural

sandpipers·

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 sandpiper

What does sandpiper mean?

sandpiper means "any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers".

How many syllables are in sandpiper?

sandpiper has 3 syllables and divides as sand-pi-per 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 sandpiper a common word?

sandpiper 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.