sharksucker

Questions about sharksucker

What does sharksucker mean?

sharksucker means "remoras found attached to sharks".

How many syllables are in sharksucker?

sharksucker has 3 syllables and divides as shark-suc-ker 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 sharksucker?

Close synonyms include Echeneis naucrates. 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 sharksucker a common word?

sharksucker 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.