sawfish
noun
sawfish is spelled S-A-W-F-I-S-H: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sawfish means “Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sawfish is sawfishes.
How many letters and syllables are in sawfish?
| Letters | 7: S-A-W-F-I-S-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 sawfish?
Sawfish appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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 sawfish?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sawfish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sawfish
- sawfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sawfish mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sawfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ray with saw-shaped snout:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poisson-scie, scie |
| German | Sägefisch, Sägerochen |
| Portuguese | peixe-serra |
| Spanish | pez sierra, sierra |
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 sawfish come from?
From saw + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).