fishfinder
noun
fishfinder is a noun meaning “An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-F-I-N-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishfinder is fishfinders.
What does fishfinder mean?
noun
- 1
An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fishfinder?
- 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-fishfinder.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fishfinder
- fishfinders plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishfinder?
Fishfinder appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 fishfinder come from?
From fish + finder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).