crampfish

Questions about crampfish

What does crampfish mean?

crampfish means "any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges".

How many syllables are in crampfish?

crampfish has 2 syllables and divides as cramp-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 crampfish?

Close synonyms include electric ray, numbfish, torpedo. 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 crampfish a common word?

crampfish 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.