damselfish

Other forms of damselfish

plural

damselfishes

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 damselfish

What does damselfish mean?

damselfish means "small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs".

How many syllables are in damselfish?

damselfish has 3 syllables and divides as dam-sel-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 damselfish?

Close synonyms include demoiselle. 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 damselfish a common word?

damselfish 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.