woodpecker

1. 1.

   bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

   Synonymspeckerwoodpecker

   Broaderpiciform bird

   Narrowergreen woodpeckerdowny woodpeckerflickerivorybillredheaded woodpeckersapsuckerwryneckpiculet

   Part ofPicidae

Other forms of woodpecker

plural

woodpeckers·

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 woodpecker

What does woodpecker mean?

woodpecker means "bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects".

How many syllables are in woodpecker?

woodpecker has 3 syllables: wood-pec-ker. The stress falls on "wood". In IPA it is /ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ/.

What is another word for woodpecker?

Close synonyms include peckerwood, pecker. 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 woodpecker a common word?

woodpecker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.