pipefish

Other forms of pipefish

plural

pipefishes

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 pipefish

What does pipefish mean?

pipefish means "fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates".

How many syllables are in pipefish?

pipefish has 2 syllables: pipe-fish. The stress falls on "pipe". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪpˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for pipefish?

Close synonyms include needlefish. 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 pipefish a common word?

pipefish 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 pipefish?

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