finfish
noun
finfish is a noun meaning “Any fish, but especially fish other than flatfish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-F-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of finfish is finfishes.
What does finfish mean?
noun
- 1
Any fish, but especially fish other than flatfish
- 2
informalClipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish; used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of finfish
- finfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is finfish?
Finfish appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).
Where does finfish come from?
From fin + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).