shovelhead

Questions about shovelhead

What does shovelhead mean?

shovelhead means "small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries".

How many syllables are in shovelhead?

shovelhead has 4 syllables and divides as sho-vel-he-ad 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 shovelhead?

Close synonyms include bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo. 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 shovelhead a common word?

shovelhead 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.