hagfish

Other forms of hagfish

plural

hagfishes

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 hagfish

What does hagfish mean?

hagfish means "eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies".

How many syllables are in hagfish?

hagfish has 2 syllables: hag-fish. The stress falls on "hag". In IPA it is /ˈhæɡfɪʃ/.

What is another word for hagfish?

Close synonyms include hag, slime eels. 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 hagfish a common word?

hagfish 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.