SpellRight › Spelling
Moderatefish
The correct spelling is fish.
How to pronounce fish
/fɪʃ/
nounIPA: /fɪʃ/
Say it like: Fis-h
The correct spelling is fish. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. For example: "Salmon is a fish."
Usage Examples
“Salmon is a fish.”
“The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.”
“The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- 2.Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- 3.The flesh of the fish used as food.
- 4.A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- 5.A woman.
verb
- 1.To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
- 2.To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- 3.To use as bait when fishing.
- 4.To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- 5.(followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
Similar words
Words related in meaning — check their spelling too.