angelfish

Other forms of angelfish

plural

angelfishes

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 angelfish

What does angelfish mean?

angelfish means "a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in angelfish?

angelfish has 3 syllables: an-gel-fish. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈeɪndʒəlˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for angelfish?

Close synonyms include spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber, angel shark, Squatina squatina, 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 angelfish a common word?

angelfish 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.

What rhymes with angelfish?

21 words rhyme with angelfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.