haddock

Other forms of haddock

plural

haddock(unchanged)

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 haddock

What does haddock mean?

haddock means "lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haddock?

haddock has 2 syllables: had-dock. The stress falls on "had". In IPA it is /ˈhædək/.

What is another word for haddock?

Close synonyms include Melanogrammus aeglefinus. 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 haddock a common word?

haddock 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.