wrasse

Other forms of wrasse

plural

wrasses·

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 wrasse

What does wrasse mean?

wrasse means "chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored".

How many syllables are in wrasse?

wrasse has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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.

Is wrasse a common word?

wrasse 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.