scorpionfish
noun
scorpionfish is a noun meaning “Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-O-R-P-I-O-N-F-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of scorpionfish is scorpionfishes.
What does scorpionfish mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce scorpionfish?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scorpionfish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of scorpionfish
- scorpionfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is scorpionfish?
Scorpionfish appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Scorpionfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rascasse, diable de mer |
| German | Skorpionsfisch |
| Portuguese | peixe-escorpião, aranhiço, mangangá |
| Spanish | pez escorpión, escorpena, escorpina |
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 scorpionfish come from?
From scorpion + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).