clownfish
/ˈklaʊnˌfɪʃ/
"clownfish" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clownfish” is uncommon English (frequency #76,650 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,650
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with se...
Corpus desk
Index EN-clownfish · clownfish · English
clownfish · rank #76,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloven
Nearest frequency peer: cloven (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “clownfish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- classism
classism
23,356 corpus weight
- Cleves
Cleves
23,355 corpus weight
- cloven
cloven
23,352 corpus weight
- clownfish
clownfish
23,351 corpus weight
- coffer
coffer
23,347 corpus weight
- collectivity
collectivity
23,346 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “clownfish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clownfish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklaʊnˌfɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “clownfish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
clownfish is uncommon English at frequency #76,650 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈklaʊnˌfɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with se...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for clownfish in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From clown + fish. The correct English form is clownfish, spelled C-L-O-W-N-F-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Any of the colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with sea anemones.
Etymology
From clown + fish.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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