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common hawk-cuckoo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon hawk-cuck-oo
IPA
40
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The bird Hierococcyx varius.

Inflected Forms

common hawk-cuckoos (plural)

Synonyms

brain-fever bird

Questions

What does common hawk-cuckoo mean?
The bird Hierococcyx varius.

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