eelpout

Other forms of eelpout

plural

eelpouts·

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 eelpout

What does eelpout mean?

eelpout means "marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eelpout?

eelpout has 2 syllables: eel-pout. The stress falls on "eel". In IPA it is /ˈilˌpaʊt/.

What is another word for eelpout?

Close synonyms include pout, burbot, ling, cusk, Lota lota. 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 eelpout a common word?

eelpout 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.

What rhymes with eelpout?

3 words rhyme with eelpout. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.