flagfish

Questions about flagfish

What does flagfish mean?

flagfish means "a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida".

How many syllables are in flagfish?

flagfish has 2 syllables and divides as flag-fish 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 flagfish?

Close synonyms include American flagfish, Jordanella floridae. 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 flagfish a common word?

flagfish 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.