fishscale
noun
fishscale is a noun meaning “The scale of a fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-S-C-A-L-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishscale is fishscales.
What does fishscale mean?
noun
- 1
The scale of a fish.
- 2
slangCocaine, usually of high quality, taken directly off the brick and uncut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fishscale?
- 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-fishscale.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fishscale
- fishscales plural
- fish-scale
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishscale?
Fishscale appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 fishscale come from?
From fish + scale. The use for sense 2 is from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).