Wigeon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 81 anagrams from letters in wigeon (eginow).
1505-15; perhaps French vigeon Vulgar Latin; compare Medieval Latin vipiō kind of crane (derivative of vip- imitative of bird's cry)
Other species also form magaonas, but more rarely and never in so conspicuous a manner as the wigeon.
By four oclock we had secured, in five drives, eleven geese and a wigeon.
The wigeon realises his advantage and sticks to the shallow—the raptor ever trying to force him to the deep.
For the following statements, see on the wigeon, Loudon’s ‘Mag.
The same remarks may be said to apply to the Teal, the wigeon, and some few others.
This applies chiefly to wigeon, but we have frequently observed the same trait in pintail and occasionally in other species.
Many of the wigeon and other ducks, and all Golden Plovers are now gone.
wigeon arrive from the end of September onwards, the great influx occurring during the first fortnight of November.
This autumn migration of the wigeon begins late in September, and lasts well on into November.
wigeon (Mareca penelope) never breed, though chance birds (and some greylags also) remain every summer—possibly wounded.