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devilfish

noun

devilfish is spelled D-E-V-I-L-F-I-S-H: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, devilfish means “The octopus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of devilfish is devilfishes.

How many letters and syllables are in devilfish?

Letters9: D-E-V-I-L-F-I-S-H
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is devilfish?

Devilfish appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

How do you pronounce devilfish?

  • US

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

Forms of devilfish

  • devilfishes plural
  • devil-fish
  • devil fish

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

What does devilfish mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    datedThe octopus.

  2. 2

    datedThe giant squid or kraken.

  3. 3

    datedThe gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

  4. 4

    datedThe piranha.

  5. 5

    datedThe anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius.

  6. 6

    datedThe suckermouth catfish, Hypostomus plecostomus (translating Spanish pez diablo).

  7. 7

    datedThe manta ray; any ray in the genus Mobula.

  8. 8

    datedThe devil ray, Mobula mobular.

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

Where does devilfish come from?

Compound of devil + fish.

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

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