leatherjacket

Other forms of leatherjacket

plural

leatherjackets·

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 leatherjacket

What does leatherjacket mean?

leatherjacket means "any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leatherjacket?

leatherjacket has 5 syllables: le-a-ther-jac-ket. The stress falls on "ther".

What is another word for leatherjacket?

Close synonyms include leatherfish, leatherjack. 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 leatherjacket a common word?

leatherjacket 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.