Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quillback

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quill-back
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.

Etymology

From quill + back.

Inflected Forms

quillbacks (plural)

Questions

What does quillback mean?: Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.
Where does quillback come from?: From quill + back.

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