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brown pelican

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables
brown pel-i-can
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Pelecanus occidentalis, a small pelican found in the Americas.

Inflected Forms

brown pelicans (plural)

Questions

What does brown pelican mean?
Pelecanus occidentalis, a small pelican found in the Americas.

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