catfish

Other forms of catfish

plural

catfishes

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 catfish

What does catfish mean?

catfish means "flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catfish?

catfish has 2 syllables: cat-fish. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for catfish?

Close synonyms include mudcat, wolffish, wolf fish, siluriform fish. 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 catfish a common word?

catfish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with catfish?

21 words rhyme with catfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.