hairtail

Questions about hairtail

What does hairtail mean?

hairtail means "long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel".

How many syllables are in hairtail?

hairtail has 2 syllables: hair-tail. The stress falls on "hair".

What is another word for hairtail?

Close synonyms include cutlassfish, frost fish. 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 hairtail a common word?

hairtail 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.