fishbowl

Other forms of fishbowl

plural

fishbowls·

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 fishbowl

What does fishbowl mean?

fishbowl means "a state of affairs in which you have no privacy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fishbowl?

fishbowl has 2 syllables: fish-bowl. The stress falls on "fish". In IPA it is /ˈfɪʃˌboʊl/.

What is another word for fishbowl?

Close synonyms include goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fish bowl, goldfish bowl. 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 fishbowl a common word?

fishbowl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 fishbowl?

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