beta fish
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "His chest puffed out like one of those Japanese beta fishes when it had caught a glimpse of itself in a mirror."
- "Beta fish cannot be put together in the same bowl—because they will fight each other to the death."
- "We keep twenty beta fish at the restaurant."
- "And beta fish can't be beta fish if they are fighting to be alpha fish."
- "Well, there's Winston. But he's just a beta fish, so he's stuck in the house all day either way."
- "He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did."