upupidae

Questions about upupidae

What does upupidae mean?

upupidae means "hoopoes".

How many syllables are in upupidae?

upupidae has 4 syllables and divides as u-pu-pi-dae 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 upupidae?

Close synonyms include family Upupidae. 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 upupidae a common word?

upupidae 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.