oarfish
noun
oarfish is a noun meaning “A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family Regalecidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-A-R-F-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oarfish is oarfishes.
What does oarfish mean?
noun
- 1
A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family Regalecidae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oarfish
- oarfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oarfish?
Oarfish appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
Oarfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish of the family Regalecidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Riemenfisch, Bandfisch |
| Spanish | pez remo |
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 oarfish come from?
From oar + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).