suckerfish

Other forms of suckerfish

plural

suckerfishes

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 suckerfish

What does suckerfish mean?

suckerfish means "marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects".

How many syllables are in suckerfish?

suckerfish has 3 syllables and divides as suc-ker-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 suckerfish?

Close synonyms include remora, sucking 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 suckerfish a common word?

suckerfish 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.