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whalefish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
whale-fish
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A whale.

Dated

noun

Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.

Usage

Inflected Forms

whalefishes (plural)

Phrases

flabby whalefish redmouth whalefish velvet whalefish

Questions

What does whalefish mean?
A whale.
Where does whalefish come from?
From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.

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