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pilotfish

pilotfish is the alternative spelling of pilot fish.

Meaning of pilot fish

Noun

pilot fish (plural pilot fish or pilot fishes)

  1. A marine fish, Naucrates ductor, that often follows large vessels and sharks.

Forms of pilotfish

pluralpilotfishes
pluralpilotfish

Questions about pilotfish

What is pilotfish the alternative spelling of?
Pilotfish is the alternative spelling of pilot fish.

Words near pilotfish in the dictionary

  1. piloted
  2. piloter
  3. piloters
  4. pilotess
  5. pilotesses
  6. pilotfish
  7. pilotfishes
  8. pilothouse
  9. pilothouses
  10. piloti
  11. piloting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pilotfish (page history and authors); pilot fish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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