yardbird

Other forms of yardbird

plural

yardbirds·

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 yardbird

What does yardbird mean?

yardbird means "a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yardbird?

yardbird has 2 syllables: yard-bird. The stress falls on "yard".

What is another word for yardbird?

Close synonyms include yard bird, convict, con, inmate, yard bird. 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 yardbird a common word?

yardbird 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.