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longclaw

noun

longclaw is spelled L-O-N-G-C-L-A-W: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, longclaw means “Any of several passerine birds of the genus Macronyx, that have long hind claws” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of longclaw is longclaws.

How many letters and syllables are in longclaw?

Letters8: L-O-N-G-C-L-A-W
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 longclaw?

Longclaw appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Forms of longclaw

  • longclaws plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does longclaw mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several passerine birds of the genus Macronyx, that have long hind claws

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does longclaw come from?

From long + claw.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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