muttonfish

What does muttonfish mean?

muttonfish means "similar to and often marketed as `red snapper'".

How many syllables are in muttonfish?

muttonfish has 3 syllables and divides as mut-ton-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 muttonfish?

Close synonyms include mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis. 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 muttonfish a common word?

muttonfish 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muttonfish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.