swiftlet

Questions about swiftlet

What does swiftlet mean?

swiftlet means "swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest".

How many syllables are in swiftlet?

swiftlet has 2 syllables and divides as swift-let 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 swiftlet?

Close synonyms include Collocalia inexpectata. 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 swiftlet a common word?

swiftlet 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.