fishlike
adjective
fishlike is an adjective meaning “Having some characteristics of a fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-L-I-K-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fishlike mean?
adjective
- 1
Having some characteristics of a fish.
fishlike scales
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fishlike
- more fishlike comparative
- most fishlike superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishlike?
Fishlike appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Fishlike in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense like a fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | fischartig |
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 fishlike come from?
From fish + -like.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).