Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lincoln's sparrow

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: lin-col-n's s-par-row
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Melospiza lincolnii, a small sparrow native to North America.

Etymology

Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Lincoln, who shot the bird on an expedition with Audubon to Nova Scotia in 1834.

Inflected Forms

Lincoln's sparrows (plural)

Questions

What does lincoln's sparrow mean?: Melospiza lincolnii, a small sparrow native to North America.
Where does lincoln's sparrow come from?: Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Lincoln, who shot the bird on an expedition with Audubon to Nova Scotia in 1834.

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