sparrow

Other forms of sparrow

plural

sparrows·

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 sparrow

What does sparrow mean?

sparrow means "any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sparrow?

sparrow has 2 syllables: spar-row. The stress falls on "spar". In IPA it is /ˈspɛɹoʊ/.

What is another word for sparrow?

Close synonyms include true sparrow, hedge sparrow, dunnock, Prunella modularis. 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 sparrow a common word?

sparrow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.