needlefish

Other forms of needlefish

plural

needlefishes

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 needlefish

What does needlefish mean?

needlefish means "elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in needlefish?

needlefish has 3 syllables: need-le-fish. The stress falls on "need". In IPA it is /ˈnidəlˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for needlefish?

Close synonyms include gar, billfish, pipefish. 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 needlefish a common word?

needlefish 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 needlefish?

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