mackerel

Other forms of mackerel

plural

mackerels·

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 mackerel

What does mackerel mean?

mackerel means "flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mackerel?

mackerel has 3 syllables: mac-ke-rel. The stress falls on "mac". In IPA it is /ˈmækɚəl/.

Is mackerel a common word?

mackerel 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.