Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white hawk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: white hawk
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Leucopternis albicollis, an Amazonian raptor

name

An Amerindian surname.

Etymology

white+hawk. Calque of various Amerind languages.

Inflected Forms

white hawks (plural) Whitehawk (alternative)

Questions

What does white hawk mean?: Leucopternis albicollis, an Amazonian raptor
Where does white hawk come from?: white+hawk. Calque of various Amerind languages.

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