wheater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Misspelling of wheatear (“bird”).
Example Sentences
- "It is particularly famous for its wheaters, a small bird, of the size of a lark, not much inferior to an ortolane, which is taken on the SE."
- "The people have plenty of patridges, woodcocks, snipes, thrushes, woodpigeons, turtle doves, wheaters, and poultry."
- "As less and less of the Downs is used as traditional pasture and more grassland is turned over to arable agriculture, the once-common wildlife species – the Adonis Blue and Chalkhill Blue butterflies, grasshoppers and the wheater bird, for example – are fast disappearing."