jewfish

Other forms of jewfish

plural

jewfishes

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 jewfish

What does jewfish mean?

jewfish means "large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jewfish?

jewfish has 2 syllables: jew-fish. The stress falls on "jew". In IPA it is /ˈdʒuˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for jewfish?

Close synonyms include mulloway, Sciaena antarctica, Mycteroperca bonaci. 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 jewfish a common word?

jewfish 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.

What rhymes with jewfish?

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