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hooded merganser

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables
hood-ed mer-ganser
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

hooded mergansers (plural)

Synonyms

hooded sheldrake hootamaganzy hoodie snowl lophodytes cucullatus

Questions

What does hooded merganser mean?
A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.

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