spadefish

Questions about spadefish

What does spadefish mean?

spadefish means "deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters".

How many syllables are in spadefish?

spadefish has 3 syllables and divides as spa-de-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 spadefish?

Close synonyms include angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber. 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 spadefish a common word?

spadefish 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.