sunfish

Other forms of sunfish

plural

sunfishes

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 sunfish

What does sunfish mean?

sunfish means "the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunfish?

sunfish has 2 syllables: sun-fish. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/.

What is another word for sunfish?

Close synonyms include ocean sunfish, mola, headfish, centrarchid. 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 sunfish a common word?

sunfish 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.

What rhymes with sunfish?

21 words rhyme with sunfish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.