fishball
noun
fishball is a noun meaning “A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishball is fishballs.
What does fishball mean?
noun
- 1
A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fishball
- fishballs plural
- fish ball
- fish-ball
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishball?
Fishball appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Fishball in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pulverized fish shaped into a ball:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | bola de pescado |
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 fishball come from?
From fish + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).