widgeon

Questions about widgeon

What does widgeon mean?

widgeon means "freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals".

How many syllables are in widgeon?

widgeon has 3 syllables and divides as wid-ge-on 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 widgeon?

Close synonyms include wigeon, Anas penelope. 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 widgeon a common word?

widgeon 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.