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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saury

/ˈsɔː.ɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables
saury
IPA
/ˈsɔː.ɹi/
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

Etymology

Eggcorn of Japanese 佐伊羅 (saira). By surface analysis, -saur (“dinosaur or other extinct reptile”) + -y (diminutive suffix).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

sauries (plural)

Phrases

Atlantic saury blotched saury clouded saury common saury dwarf saury filamentous saury gracile saury grey saury

Synonyms

billfish scomberesox saurus

Questions

How do you pronounce saury?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɔː.ɹi/.
What does saury mean?
A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
Where does saury come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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