trumpetfish

Questions about trumpetfish

What does trumpetfish mean?

trumpetfish means "tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down".

How many syllables are in trumpetfish?

trumpetfish has 3 syllables and divides as trum-pet-fish 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 trumpetfish?

Close synonyms include Aulostomus maculatus. 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 trumpetfish a common word?

trumpetfish 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.