tilefish

1. 1.

   important marine food fishes

   Synonymsblanquillo

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofBranchiostegidae
2. 2.

   yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters

   SynonymsLopholatilus chamaeleonticeps

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofLopholatilus

Other forms of tilefish

plural

tilefishes

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 tilefish

What does tilefish mean?

tilefish means "important marine food fishes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tilefish?

tilefish has 3 syllables: ti-le-fish. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for tilefish?

Close synonyms include blanquillo, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps. 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 tilefish a common word?

tilefish 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.