redfish

Other forms of redfish

plural

redfishes

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 redfish

What does redfish mean?

redfish means "North Atlantic rockfish". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redfish?

redfish has 2 syllables: red-fish. The stress falls on "red". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛdˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for redfish?

Close synonyms include rosefish, ocean perch, red drum, channel bass, Sciaenops ocellatus. 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 redfish a common word?

redfish 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 redfish?

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