shrimpfish

Questions about shrimpfish

What does shrimpfish mean?

shrimpfish means "slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates".

How many syllables are in shrimpfish?

shrimpfish has 2 syllables and divides as shrimp-fish 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 shrimpfish?

Close synonyms include shrimp-fish. 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 shrimpfish a common word?

shrimpfish 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.