archerfish
noun
archerfish is a noun meaning “Any member of the species in the family Toxotidae (principally genus Toxotes) of fish who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-C-H-E-R-F-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of archerfish is archerfishes.
What does archerfish mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of the species in the family Toxotidae (principally genus Toxotes) of fish who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce archerfish?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-archerfish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of archerfish
- archerfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is archerfish?
Archerfish appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).
Archerfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish in the family Toxotidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poisson archer |
| German | Schützenfisch |
| Portuguese | peixe-arqueiro |
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 archerfish come from?
From archer + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).