amberfish

Questions about amberfish

What does amberfish mean?

amberfish means "any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes".

How many syllables are in amberfish?

amberfish has 3 syllables and divides as am-ber-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 amberfish?

Close synonyms include amberjack. 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 amberfish a common word?

amberfish 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.