whitefish
/wˈaɪtfˌɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.59 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
noun
Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
noun
Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
verb
To fish for whitefish.
Example Sentences
- "“Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”"
- "“Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out."
- "Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
whitefishes (plural)
white-fish (alternative)
whitefishes (present, singular)
whitefishing (participle, present)
whitefished (participle, past)
whitefished (past)
Phrases
Alaska whitefish
Atlantic whitefish
Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola
broad whitefish
Cape whitefish
common whitefish
Coney Island whitefish
European whitefish