dolphin

Other forms of dolphin

plural

dolphins·

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 dolphin

What does dolphin mean?

dolphin means "large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dolphin?

dolphin has 2 syllables: dol-phin. The stress falls on "dol". In IPA it is /ˈdɑlfən/.

What is another word for dolphin?

Close synonyms include dolphinfish, mahimahi. 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 dolphin a common word?

dolphin 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.