squirrelfish

Other forms of squirrelfish

plural

squirrelfishes

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 squirrelfish

What does squirrelfish mean?

squirrelfish means "similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern 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 squirrelfish?

squirrelfish has 3 syllables: squir-rel-fish. The stress falls on "squir".

What is another word for squirrelfish?

Close synonyms include pinfish, sailor's-choice, Lagodon rhomboides. 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 squirrelfish a common word?

squirrelfish 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.