seafood
sea·food/ˈsiːfuːd/noun
seafood is spelled S-E-A-F-O-O-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables (sea·food). It appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seafood means “Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seafood is seafoods.
How many letters and syllables are in seafood?
| Letters | 7: S-E-A-F-O-O-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sea·food |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th 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 seafood?
Seafood appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 seafood?
- /ˈsiːfuːd/
Seafood has 2 syllables, split sea·food in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-seafood.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of seafood
- seafoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seafood mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
- 2
Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seafood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fruits de mer |
| German | Meeresfrüchte, Meeresfrucht |
| Portuguese | fruto do mar, marisco, frutos do mar |
| Spanish | marisco |
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 seafood come from?
From sea + food.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).