allmouth

Other forms of allmouth

plural

allmouths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about allmouth

What does allmouth mean?

allmouth means "fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey".

How many syllables are in allmouth?

allmouth has 2 syllables: all-mouth. The stress falls on "all".

What is another word for allmouth?

Close synonyms include goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish. 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 allmouth a common word?

allmouth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.