brisling

Other forms of brisling

plural

brislings·

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 brisling

What does brisling mean?

brisling means "small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brisling?

brisling has 2 syllables: bri-sling. The stress falls on "bri".

What is another word for brisling?

Close synonyms include sprat, sprat, Clupea sprattus. 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 brisling a common word?

brisling 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.