puffling
/ˈpʌflɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "These fish are brought to the fluffy little Puffins in their snug nests inside of a burrow or under a slab of rock. The babies are called “Pufflings.”"
- "Visit Iceland this August and you could help to rescue pufflings – baby puffins – who get confused by town street lights and crash into towns when leaving their burrows to fly over the Atlantic for the first time."
- "Whee-er-er, whee-er-er! the puffling cries because he is hungry. Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow."
- "When they're old enough the young puffins, or pufflings as they're called, have to fly off to find food."
- "Both parents feed the infant puffling until it is very fat, then leave the chick, who must make its own way to the sea."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpʌflɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈpʌflɪŋ/