duckbill
noun
duckbill is spelled D-U-C-K-B-I-L-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, duckbill means “The duck-billed platypus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of duckbill is duckbills.
How many letters and syllables are in duckbill?
| Letters | 8: D-U-C-K-B-I-L-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 20 million words; the 136,649th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is duckbill?
Duckbill appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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 duckbill?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-duckbill.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of duckbill
- duckbills plural
- duck-bill
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does duckbill mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalThe duck-billed platypus.
- 2
informalA hadrosaur.
- 3
A fish of the family Percophidae
- 4
Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
- 5
Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
- 6
A device used to force padlocks.
- 7
A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
- 8
A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does duckbill come from?
From duck + bill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).