tympanuchus

Questions about tympanuchus

What does tympanuchus mean?

tympanuchus means "prairie chickens".

How many syllables are in tympanuchus?

tympanuchus has 4 syllables and divides as tym-pa-nu-chus 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 tympanuchus?

Close synonyms include genus Tympanuchus. 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 tympanuchus a common word?

tympanuchus 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.