bluefin

Other forms of bluefin

plural

bluefins·

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 bluefin

What does bluefin mean?

bluefin means "flesh of very large tuna". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bluefin?

bluefin has 2 syllables: blue-fin. The stress falls on "blue".

What is another word for bluefin?

Close synonyms include bluefin tuna, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus. 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 bluefin a common word?

bluefin 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.