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whidah

whidah is the alternative spelling of whydah.

Meaning of whydah

Noun

whydah (plural whydahs)

  1. Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.

Forms of whidah

pluralwhidahs

Origin of whidah

alteration of the first component of widow bird

Questions about whidah

What is whidah the alternative spelling of?
Whidah is the alternative spelling of whydah.

Words near whidah in the dictionary

  1. whickering
  2. whickerings
  3. whickers
  4. Whickham
  5. whid
  6. whidah
  7. whidahs
  8. Whidbee
  9. Whidbees
  10. Whidbey Island
  11. Whidby

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whidah (page history and authors); whydah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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