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blenny

/ˈblɛni/noun

blenny is a noun meaning “Blenniidae (combtooth blennies)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-L-E-N-N-Y, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of blenny is blennies.

What does blenny mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Blenniidae (combtooth blennies)

  2. 2

    Chaenopsidae (pikeblennies, tubeblennies, and flagblennies)

  3. 3

    Clinidae (weedfishes)

  4. 4

    Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers)

  5. 5

    Labrisomidae (labrisomids)

  6. 6

    Tripterygiidae (triple-fin blennies)

  7. 7

    bartail blenny (Platycephalus indicus, in family Pseudochromidae)

  8. 8

    viviparous blenny (Zoarces viviparus, in family Zoarcidae)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce blenny?

  • /ˈblɛni/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-blenny.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of blenny

  • blennies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is blenny?

Blenny appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).

Blenny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense fish of Blenniodei:

LanguageWords
Frenchblennie
GermanSchleimfischartiger
Portugueseblênio

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 blenny come from?

From Latin blennius, blendius, from Ancient Greek βλέννα (blénna, “mucus, slime”) (whence Modern Greek βλέννα (vlénna)), because of its slimy coating. From Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).