stockfish

1. 1.

   fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt

   Broaderfish

Other forms of stockfish

plural

stockfishes

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 stockfish

What does stockfish mean?

stockfish means "fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt".

How many syllables are in stockfish?

stockfish has 2 syllables: stock-fish. The stress falls on "stock".

Is stockfish a common word?

stockfish 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.