saury

Questions about saury

What does saury mean?

saury means "slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters".

How many syllables are in saury?

saury has 2 syllables and divides as sau-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for saury?

Close synonyms include billfish, Scomberesox saurus. 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 saury a common word?

saury 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.