surnia

Questions about surnia

What does surnia mean?

surnia means "a genus of hawk-like owls".

How many syllables are in surnia?

surnia has 3 syllables and divides as sur-ni-a 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 surnia?

Close synonyms include genus Surnia. 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 surnia a common word?

surnia 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.