anglerfish

Other forms of anglerfish

plural

anglerfishes·

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 anglerfish

What does anglerfish mean?

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

How many syllables are in anglerfish?

anglerfish has 3 syllables: an-gler-fish. The stress falls on "an".

What is another word for anglerfish?

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

anglerfish 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.