widgeon

1. 1.

   freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals

   SynonymswigeonAnas penelope

   Broaderduck

   NarrowerAmerican widgeon

   Part ofAnas

Other forms of widgeon

plural

widgeons·

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 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: wid-ge-on. The stress falls on "wid".

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.