paddlefish

Questions about paddlefish

What does paddlefish mean?

paddlefish means "primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout".

How many syllables are in paddlefish?

paddlefish has 3 syllables and divides as padd-le-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 paddlefish?

Close synonyms include duckbill, Polyodon spathula. 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 paddlefish a common word?

paddlefish 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.