amberjack
/ˈæm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/noun
amberjack is a noun meaning “Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-B-E-R-J-A-C-K and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of amberjack is amberjacks.
What does amberjack mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce amberjack?
- US /ˈæm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
Amberjack has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of amberjack
- amberjacks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is amberjack?
Amberjack appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Amberjack in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish of genus Seriola:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Gelbschwanzmakrele |
| Portuguese | olhete |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does amberjack come from?
From amber (“yellow color”) + jack (“fish of family Carangidae”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).