pufferfish

Other forms of pufferfish

plural

pufferfishes·

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 pufferfish

What does pufferfish mean?

pufferfish means "delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pufferfish?

pufferfish has 3 syllables: puf-fer-fish. The stress falls on "puf".

What is another word for pufferfish?

Close synonyms include blowfish, sea squab, puffer, puffer, blowfish. 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 pufferfish a common word?

pufferfish 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.