pinfish

Questions about pinfish

What does pinfish mean?

pinfish means "similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States".

How many syllables are in pinfish?

pinfish has 2 syllables and divides as pin-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 pinfish?

Close synonyms include sailor's-choice, squirrelfish, Lagodon rhomboides. 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 pinfish a common word?

pinfish 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.