skylark

Other forms of skylark

plural

skylarks·

past tense

skylarked·

present participle

skylarking·

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 skylark

What does skylark mean?

skylark means "brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skylark?

skylark has 2 syllables: sky-lark. The stress falls on "sky". In IPA it is /ˈskaɪˌlɑɹk/.

What is another word for skylark?

Close synonyms include Alauda arvensis, frolic, lark, rollick, disport. 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 skylark a common word?

skylark 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.

What rhymes with skylark?

2 words rhyme with skylark. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.