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gamefish

noun

gamefish is spelled G-A-M-E-F-I-S-H: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gamefish means “Fish deemed suitable for the sport of angling, as opposed to those caught primarily for food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gamefish is gamefishes.

How many letters and syllables are in gamefish?

Letters8: G-A-M-E-F-I-S-H
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is gamefish?

Gamefish appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

How do you pronounce gamefish?

  • 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-gamefish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of gamefish

  • gamefishes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does gamefish mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Fish deemed suitable for the sport of angling, as opposed to those caught primarily for food.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does gamefish come from?

From game + fish.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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