fishiness
noun
fishiness is a noun meaning “The quality of being fishy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishiness is fishinesses.
What does fishiness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being fishy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fishiness
- fishinesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishiness?
Fishiness appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 fishiness come from?
From fishy + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).