whinchat

1. 1.

   brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows

   SynonymsSaxicola rubetra

   BroaderOld World chat

Other forms of whinchat

plural

whinchats·

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 whinchat

What does whinchat mean?

whinchat means "brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows".

How many syllables are in whinchat?

whinchat has 2 syllables: whin-chat. The stress falls on "whin".

What is another word for whinchat?

Close synonyms include Saxicola rubetra. 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 whinchat a common word?

whinchat 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.