koel
noun
koel is a noun meaning “A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-E-L, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of koel is koels.
What does koel mean?
noun
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A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of koel
- koels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is koel?
Koel appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).
Where does koel come from?
From Hindi कोयल (koyal), from Sanskrit कोकिल (kokila) which is of onomatopoeic origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).