waterfowl

Questions about waterfowl

What does waterfowl mean?

waterfowl means "freshwater aquatic bird".

How many syllables are in waterfowl?

waterfowl has 3 syllables: wa-ter-fowl. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌfaʊl/.

What is another word for waterfowl?

Close synonyms include water bird, waterbird. 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 waterfowl a common word?

waterfowl 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.

What rhymes with waterfowl?

4 words rhyme with waterfowl. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.