striped beakfish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
1
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tropical fish of species Oplegnathus fasciatus, found primarily in waters around Japan, with young distinguished by alternating stripes or bars of light and dark grey, whence the names; Adults, which grow up to 15 inches, tend to be charcoal grey.
Inflected Forms
striped beakfishes (plural)
Synonyms
barred knifejaw
striped beakperch