frogfish

1. 1.

   fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout

   Broaderspiny-finned fish

   Part ofAntennariidae

Other forms of frogfish

plural

frogfishes

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 frogfish

What does frogfish mean?

frogfish means "fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout".

How many syllables are in frogfish?

frogfish has 2 syllables: frog-fish. The stress falls on "frog".

Is frogfish a common word?

frogfish 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.