vulture

Other forms of vulture

plural

vultures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vulture

What does vulture mean?

vulture means "any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vulture?

vulture has 2 syllables: vul-ture. The stress falls on "vul". In IPA it is /ˈvʌltʃɚ/.

What is another word for vulture?

Close synonyms include marauder, predator, piranha. 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 vulture a common word?

vulture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.