ladyfish

Questions about ladyfish

What does ladyfish mean?

ladyfish means "game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller".

How many syllables are in ladyfish?

ladyfish has 3 syllables and divides as la-dy-fish 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 ladyfish?

Close synonyms include tenpounder, Elops saurus. 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 ladyfish a common word?

ladyfish 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.