goosefish

Other forms of goosefish

plural

goosefishes

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 goosefish

What does goosefish mean?

goosefish means "fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey".

How many syllables are in goosefish?

goosefish has 2 syllables: goose-fish. The stress falls on "goose". In IPA it is /ˈɡuˌsfɪʃ/.

What is another word for goosefish?

Close synonyms include angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte. 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 goosefish a common word?

goosefish 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.