surmullet

Other forms of surmullet

plural

surmullets·

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 surmullet

What does surmullet mean?

surmullet means "brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels".

How many syllables are in surmullet?

surmullet has 3 syllables and divides as sur-mul-let 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 surmullet?

Close synonyms include goatfish, red mullet, Mullus surmuletus. 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 surmullet a common word?

surmullet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.