whiting

1. 1.

   flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

   Broadersaltwater fish
2. 2.

   flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America

   Broadersaltwater fish

   Part ofsilver hake
3. 3.

   a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofSillago
4. 4.

   any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters

   Broadersciaenid fish

   Narrowerkingfishking whitingnorthern whitingcorbinasilver whiting

   Part ofMenticirrhus
5. 5.

   found off Atlantic coast of North America

   Synonymssilver hakeMerluccius bilinearis

   Broaderhake
6. 6.

   a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus

   SynonymsMerlangus merlangusGadus merlangus

   Broadergadoid

   Part ofMerlangus

Other forms of whiting

plural

whitings·

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 whiting

What does whiting mean?

whiting means "flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whiting?

whiting has 2 syllables: whi-ting. The stress falls on "whi". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for whiting?

Close synonyms include silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus. 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 whiting a common word?

whiting 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.