finback

Questions about finback

What does finback mean?

finback means "large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific".

How many syllables are in finback?

finback has 2 syllables and divides as fin-back 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 finback?

Close synonyms include finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus. 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 finback a common word?

finback 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.