jellyfish

Other forms of jellyfish

plural

jellyfishes

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 jellyfish

What does jellyfish mean?

jellyfish means "large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jellyfish?

jellyfish has 3 syllables: jel-ly-fish. The stress falls on "jel". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛliˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for jellyfish?

Close synonyms include Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war. 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 jellyfish a common word?

jellyfish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with jellyfish?

21 words rhyme with jellyfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.