wreckfish

Questions about wreckfish

What does wreckfish mean?

wreckfish means "brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks".

How many syllables are in wreckfish?

wreckfish has 2 syllables and divides as wreck-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 wreckfish?

Close synonyms include stone bass, Polyprion americanus. 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 wreckfish a common word?

wreckfish 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.