rockfish

Other forms of rockfish

plural

rockfishes

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 rockfish

What does rockfish mean?

rockfish means "the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rockfish?

rockfish has 2 syllables: rock-fish. The stress falls on "rock".

What is another word for rockfish?

Close synonyms include striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis. 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 rockfish a common word?

rockfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.