swordtail

Questions about swordtail

What does swordtail mean?

swordtail means "freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish".

How many syllables are in swordtail?

swordtail has 2 syllables and divides as sword-tail 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 swordtail?

Close synonyms include helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri. 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 swordtail a common word?

swordtail 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.