tanager

Questions about tanager

What does tanager mean?

tanager means "any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males".

How many syllables are in tanager?

tanager has 3 syllables and divides as ta-na-ger 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.

Is tanager a common word?

tanager 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.