fingerling

1. 1.

   a young or small fish

   Broaderfish

Other forms of fingerling

plural

fingerlings·

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 fingerling

What does fingerling mean?

fingerling means "a young or small fish".

How many syllables are in fingerling?

fingerling has 3 syllables and divides as fin-ger-ling 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.