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Definition: Filefish |
FilefishNoun1. Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Filefish |
| English words defined with "filefish": Balistoid, Barnacle eater ♦ Foolfish. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The filefish, Alutera scripta.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Long-nosed Filefish -- Oxymonocanthus longirostris.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Elkhorn coral and a white-spotted filefish.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A scrawled filefish.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Filefish - Alutera scripta aspect of photo is deceiving, fish is actually flat.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. | ||
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| "Filefish" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Filefish" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
filefish | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "filefish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 皮剥 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かわはぎ (leatherfish). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilefishfay ปลาเขตร้อนตระกูล Balistidae. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Balistes capriscus, Balistes carolinensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filefish": filefishes. (additional references) | |
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"Filefish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Firefish, Flyfish, nilfisk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-h-i-i-l-s" | |
-2 letters: elfish. | |
-3 letters: fiefs, fifes, files, flesh, flies, heils, shelf, shiel. | |
-4 letters: effs, elhi, fehs, fief, fife, file, fils, fish, heil, hies, hili, isle, leis, lief, lies, life, seif, self. | |
-5 letters: eff, efs, elf, els, feh, fie, fil, hes, hie, his, iff, ifs, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel, she. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-h-i-i-l-s" | |
+2 letters: filefishes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 65 66 69 73 68 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. . ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l e f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0065 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075787172758574 |
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