Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plecostomus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ple-cos-to-mus
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several fish in the family Loricariidae marketed for aquariums due to their diet cleaning the habitat

Inflected Forms

plecostomi (plural)

Synonyms

plec pleco pleco fish janitor fish

Questions

What does plecostomus mean?: Any of several fish in the family Loricariidae marketed for aquariums due to their diet cleaning the habitat

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