porkfish

Questions about porkfish

What does porkfish mean?

porkfish means "black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil".

How many syllables are in porkfish?

porkfish has 2 syllables and divides as pork-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 porkfish?

Close synonyms include pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus. 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 porkfish a common word?

porkfish 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.