alligatorfish

Questions about alligatorfish

What does alligatorfish mean?

alligatorfish means "small very elongate sea poachers".

How many syllables are in alligatorfish?

alligatorfish has 5 syllables and divides as al-li-ga-tor-fish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for alligatorfish?

Close synonyms include Aspidophoroides monopterygius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alligatorfish a common word?

alligatorfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.