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: suc-ker-fish. The stress falls on "suc".

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.