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"SONGBIRDS" is a plural of: songbird. |
Date "SONGBIRDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The largest order of birds including more than 5000 species or more than half of all living birds, consisting chiefly of songbirds of perching habits. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Passeriformes of the suborder, Oscines, in which the flexor tendons of the toes are separate, and the lower syrinx has 4 to 9 pairs of tensor muscles inserted at both ends of the tracheal half rings. They include many commonly recognized birds such as crows, finches, robins, sparrows, and swallows. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SONGBIRDS |
| English words defined with "SONGBIRDS": bunting ♦ chat, chickadee ♦ family Vireonidae, finch, flycatcher ♦ lark ♦ meadowlark ♦ Old World chat, Old World flycatcher, oscine, Oscines ♦ Passeres, passeriform bird, passerine, pipit ♦ suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres ♦ thrush, titlark, true flycatcher ♦ Vireonidae ♦ waxwing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SONGBIRDS": scrub-birds. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "SONGBIRDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "SONGBIRDS" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
songbirds | 79 |
american north songbirds | 4 |
songbirds picture | 3 |
songbirds texas | 3 |
america north songbirds | 2 |
songbirds wisconsin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SONGBIRDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | spurvefugle (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | zangvogels (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | passereaux, passériformes. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Sperlingsvoegel (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | στρουθιοειδή (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | passeriformi (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鳴禽類 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | めいき"るい. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongbirdssay passeriformes (passeriformes, perching birds). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Passeriformes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SONGBIRDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sunghir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SONGBIRDS" (pronounced sô"ngber'dz) |
| 5 | -ng b er' d z | hummingbirds, kingbirds. |
| 4 | -b er' d z | Firebirds, Snowbirds, sunbirds, Thunderbirds. |
| 3 | -er' d z | crosswords, keywords, passwords. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: birdsongs. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: birdsong, songbird. | |
-2 letters: bodings, borings, bossing, dossing, gibsons, grisons, signors, sorbing, sorings. | |
-3 letters: bingos, bisons, boding, boring, brings, doings, dosing, gibson, girons, gnosis, grinds, grison, groins, orbing, robing, robins, rosing, rosins, signor, soring. | |
-4 letters: binds, bingo, birds, bison, boing, bonds, bongs, brigs, bring, brins, brios, dingo, dings, doing, dongs, dribs, dross, girds, girns, giron. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: signboards. | |
+3 letters: crossbanding, springboards. | |
+4 letters: boardsailings, crossbandings, crossbreeding, sailboardings, snowboardings. | |
+5 letters: bildungsromans, boardinghouses, forebodingness, skateboardings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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