puddingwife

Questions about puddingwife

What does puddingwife mean?

puddingwife means "bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil".

How many syllables are in puddingwife?

puddingwife has 3 syllables and divides as pud-din-gwife 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 puddingwife?

Close synonyms include pudding-wife, Halicoeres radiatus. 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 puddingwife a common word?

puddingwife 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.