saurel

Other forms of saurel

plural

saurels·

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 saurel

What does saurel mean?

saurel means "large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saurel?

saurel has 2 syllables: sau-rel. The stress falls on "sau".

What is another word for saurel?

Close synonyms include horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel. 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 saurel a common word?

saurel 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.