silversides

Other forms of silversides

plural

silversideses·

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 silversides

What does silversides mean?

silversides means "small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silversides?

silversides has 3 syllables: sil-ver-sides. The stress falls on "sil". In IPA it is /ˈsɪlvɚˌsaɪdz/.

What is another word for silversides?

Close synonyms include silverside, common shiner, Notropis cornutus. 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 silversides a common word?

silversides 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.

What rhymes with silversides?

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