cassowary
/ˈkæs.əˌwɛɹ.i/noun
cassowary is spelled C-A-S-S-O-W-A-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is cassowarry: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 435 of all searches for the word. Cassowary is a noun meaning “Any of the large, flightless, cursorial birds of the genus Casuarius, family Casuariidae, native to Australia…”. The plural of cassowary is cassowaries.
How many letters and syllables are in cassowary?
| Letters | 9: C-A-S-S-O-W-A-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 93,703rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, cassowarry, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell cassowary?
Cassowary is spelled C-A-S-S-O-W-A-R-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 321 of the searches for cassowary in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cassowary?
Cassowary appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cassowary?
- US /ˈkæs.əˌwɛɹ.i/
Cassowary has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cassowary.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cassowary
- cassowaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cassowary mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of the large, flightless, cursorial birds of the genus Casuarius, family Casuariidae, native to Australia and New Guinea, having a characteristic bony casque on the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cassowary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cassowary come from?
Borrowed from Malay kasuari.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).