horsefish

Other forms of horsefish

plural

horsefishes·

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 horsefish

What does horsefish mean?

horsefish means "any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies".

How many syllables are in horsefish?

horsefish has 3 syllables: hor-se-fish. The stress falls on "hor".

What is another word for horsefish?

Close synonyms include moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish. 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 horsefish a common word?

horsefish 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.