crayfish

Other forms of crayfish

plural

crayfishes

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 crayfish

What does crayfish mean?

crayfish means "warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crayfish?

crayfish has 2 syllables: cray-fish. The stress falls on "cray". In IPA it is /ˈkɹeɪfɪʃ/.

What is another word for crayfish?

Close synonyms include spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crawdad. 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 crayfish a common word?

crayfish 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.