Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spoutfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spout-fish
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of marine animals that spout water; especially certain bivalve mollusks that squirt out water when retiring into their holes, for example, the thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus).

Etymology

From spout + fish.

Inflected Forms

spoutfishes (plural)

Questions

What does spoutfish mean?: Any of a number of marine animals that spout water; especially certain bivalve mollusks that squirt out water when retiring into their holes, for example, the thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus).
Where does spoutfish come from?: From spout + fish.

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