chenfish

Questions about chenfish

What does chenfish mean?

chenfish means "small silvery marine food fish found off California".

How many syllables are in chenfish?

chenfish has 2 syllables and divides as chen-fish 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 chenfish?

Close synonyms include white croaker, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus. 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 chenfish a common word?

chenfish 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.