parrotfish
noun
parrotfish is a noun meaning “Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-R-O-T-F-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of parrotfish is parrotfishes.
What does parrotfish mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of parrotfish
- parrotfishes plural
- parrot fish
- parrot-fish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parrotfish?
Parrotfish appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).
Words people confuse with parrotfish
Also written: parrot-fish (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Parrotfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tropical marine fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Papageifisch |
| Portuguese | peixe-papagaio |
| Spanish | pez loro |
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 parrotfish come from?
From parrot + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).