stonechat
noun
stonechat is a noun meaning “Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus Saxicola that feed on insects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-O-N-E-C-H-A-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stonechat is stonechats.
What does stonechat mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus Saxicola that feed on insects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stonechat
- stonechats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stonechat?
Stonechat appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).
Stonechat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bird:
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 stonechat come from?
From stone + chat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).