sawbill

Other forms of sawbill

plural

sawbills·

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 sawbill

What does sawbill mean?

sawbill means "large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges".

How many syllables are in sawbill?

sawbill has 2 syllables: saw-bill. The stress falls on "saw".

What is another word for sawbill?

Close synonyms include merganser, fish duck, sheldrake. 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 sawbill a common word?

sawbill 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.