hogchoker

Questions about hogchoker

What does hogchoker mean?

hogchoker means "useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama".

How many syllables are in hogchoker?

hogchoker has 3 syllables and divides as hog-cho-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hogchoker?

Close synonyms include Trinectes maculatus. 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 hogchoker a common word?

hogchoker 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.