shellfish

Other forms of shellfish

plural

shellfishes

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 shellfish

What does shellfish mean?

shellfish means "meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shellfish?

shellfish has 2 syllables: shell-fish. The stress falls on "shell". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛlˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for shellfish?

Close synonyms include mollusk, mollusc. 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 shellfish a common word?

shellfish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shellfish?

21 words rhyme with shellfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.