sparrow hawk
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The American kestrel or American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius), a small falcon found in North and South America that preys on grasshoppers and small animals.
noun
Alternative form of sparrowhawk; the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), a small, short-winged European hawk and other similar Old World hawks in the subfamily Accipitrinae, that prey on smaller birds.