fishmarket
noun
fishmarket is a noun meaning “A market where fish is sold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-M-A-R-K-E-T, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishmarket is fishmarkets.
What does fishmarket mean?
noun
- 1
A market where fish is sold.
- 2
A social gathering consisting only of females. Cf. sausagefest for males.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fishmarket?
- 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-fishmarket.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fishmarket
- fishmarkets plural
- fish market
- fish-market
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishmarket?
Fishmarket appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Fishmarket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense market where fish is sold:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | pescadería, lonja |
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 fishmarket come from?
From Middle English fisshmarket; equivalent to fish + market.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).