Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buff-breasted sandpiper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English

Syllables: buf-f-breast-ed sand-piper
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Calidris subruficollis of sandpipers, that breed in the North American tundra and migrate as far as Argentina.

Inflected Forms

buff-breasted stint (canonical) buff-breasted sandpipers (plural)

Questions

What does buff-breasted sandpiper mean?: Any member of the species Calidris subruficollis of sandpipers, that breed in the North American tundra and migrate as far as Argentina.

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