scaup

Other forms of scaup

plural

scaups·

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 scaup

What does scaup mean?

scaup means "diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill".

How many syllables are in scaup?

scaup has 1 syllable: scaup.

What is another word for scaup?

Close synonyms include scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill. 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 scaup a common word?

scaup 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.