Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

finless porpoise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

Syllables: fin-less -por-poise
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any porpoise of the genus Neophocaena.

noun

Neophocaena phocaenoides, a species of porpoise that lacks a true dorsal fin and is found in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh.

Inflected Forms

finless porpoises (plural)

Questions

What does finless porpoise mean?: Any porpoise of the genus Neophocaena.

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