sandfish

Other forms of sandfish

plural

sandfishes·

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 sandfish

What does sandfish mean?

sandfish means "either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sandfish?

sandfish has 2 syllables: sand-fish. The stress falls on "sand".

What is another word for sandfish?

Close synonyms include beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus. 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 sandfish a common word?

sandfish 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.