boarfish

Other forms of boarfish

plural

boarfishes

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 boarfish

What does boarfish mean?

boarfish means "fish with large eyes and long snouts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boarfish?

boarfish has 3 syllables: bo-ar-fish. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for boarfish?

Close synonyms include Capros aper. 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 boarfish a common word?

boarfish 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.