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Definition: Triggerfish |
TriggerfishNoun1. Any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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 | Queen triggerfish - Balistes vetula. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus - grazing on new reef material. White fish is triggerfish - Balistes sp. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | A Gray Triggerfish. Credit: Sanctuaries. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Triggerfish" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Triggerfish" is used about 7 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) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "triggerfish": queen triggerfish. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
triggerfish | 58 |
clown triggerfish | 14 |
picasso triggerfish | 11 |
queen triggerfish | 7 |
titan triggerfish | 4 |
recipe triggerfish | 3 |
photo triggerfish | 3 |
niger triggerfish | 3 |
reef triggerfish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "triggerfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | en art aftrækkerfisk (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), aftrækkerfisk (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trekkervis (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porsassäppikala (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | baliste gris (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), baliste cabri (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), baliste (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), arbalétrier (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish, truss rafter), \TRG (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schweinsdrückerfisch (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), Drückerfisch (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γαϊδουρόψαρο (clown triggerfish, five-bearded rockling, grey triggerfish, stet), βαλιστής (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), μονόχειρος (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pesce balestra (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iggerfishtray cangulo cinzento (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) pez ballesta (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish), pejepuerco blanco (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (various references) grå tryckarfisk (clown triggerfish, grey triggerfish). (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 "triggerfish": triggerfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Triggerfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tigerfish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-g-h-i-i-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: fighters, freights, grifters, refights, righters, righties, shiftier, shirtier, tigerish, triggers. | |
-4 letters: fighter, fishgig, fishier, freight, frights, grifter, grigris, refight, resight, riggers, righter, shifter, sighter, tigrish, trigger. | |
-5 letters: eights, fetish, fights, firers, firths, fisher, friers, fright, friths, girths, griefs, grifts, grigri, griths, hirers, refits, rerigs, resift, rifest, rigger, rights, sherif, shrift, sifter, sigher, strife. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-g-h-i-i-r-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: triggerfishes. | |
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