sockeye

Other forms of sockeye

plural

sockeyes·

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 sockeye

What does sockeye mean?

sockeye means "fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sockeye?

sockeye has 2 syllables: soc-keye. The stress falls on "soc".

What is another word for sockeye?

Close synonyms include red salmon, sockeye salmon, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon. 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 sockeye a common word?

sockeye 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.