sparid

Other forms of sparid

plural

sparids·

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 sparid

What does sparid mean?

sparid means "spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth".

How many syllables are in sparid?

sparid has 2 syllables: spa-rid. The stress falls on "spa".

What is another word for sparid?

Close synonyms include sparid 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 sparid a common word?

sparid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.