yellowhammer

Other forms of yellowhammer

plural

yellowhammers·

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 yellowhammer

What does yellowhammer mean?

yellowhammer means "large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yellowhammer?

yellowhammer has 4 syllables: yel-lo-wham-mer. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for yellowhammer?

Close synonyms include yellow-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus, yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella. 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 yellowhammer a common word?

yellowhammer 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.