yellowtail

Other forms of yellowtail

plural

yellowtails·

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 yellowtail

What does yellowtail mean?

yellowtail means "superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yellowtail?

yellowtail has 3 syllables: yel-low-tail. The stress falls on "yel".

What is another word for yellowtail?

Close synonyms include yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus, Seriola dorsalis. 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 yellowtail a common word?

yellowtail 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.