prickleback

Other forms of prickleback

plural

pricklebacks·

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 prickleback

What does prickleback mean?

prickleback means "small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prickleback?

prickleback has 3 syllables: pric-kle-back. The stress falls on "pric". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɪkəlˌbæk/.

What is another word for prickleback?

Close synonyms include stickleback. 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 prickleback a common word?

prickleback 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 prickleback?

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