Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sooty shearwater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables
sooty s-hear-wa-ter
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of species Ardenna grisea of seabirds.

Inflected Forms

sooty shearwaters (plural)

Questions

What does sooty shearwater mean?
Any of species Ardenna grisea of seabirds.

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