Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ragfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rag-fish
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Icosteus aenigmaticus, a ray-finned fish of the northern Pacific Ocean.

Etymology

From rag + fish, from the limpness of its body, the skeleton being mostly cartilage.

Inflected Forms

ragfishes (plural)

Questions

What does ragfish mean?: Icosteus aenigmaticus, a ray-finned fish of the northern Pacific Ocean.
Where does ragfish come from?: From rag + fish, from the limpness of its body, the skeleton being mostly cartilage.

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