bluegill

Questions about bluegill

What does bluegill mean?

bluegill means "important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States".

How many syllables are in bluegill?

bluegill has 2 syllables and divides as blue-gill 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 bluegill?

Close synonyms include Lepomis macrochirus. 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 bluegill a common word?

bluegill 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.