tenpounder

Questions about tenpounder

What does tenpounder mean?

tenpounder means "game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller".

How many syllables are in tenpounder?

tenpounder has 3 syllables and divides as ten-poun-der 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 tenpounder?

Close synonyms include ladyfish, Elops saurus. 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 tenpounder a common word?

tenpounder 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.