weaverbird

Other forms of weaverbird

plural

weaverbirds·

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 weaverbird

What does weaverbird mean?

weaverbird means "finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests".

How many syllables are in weaverbird?

weaverbird has 4 syllables: we-a-ver-bird. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for weaverbird?

Close synonyms include weaver, weaver finch. 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 weaverbird a common word?

weaverbird 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.