Plural of fish
irregular plural
The plural of fish is fish or fishes.
Forms of fish
| Singular | fish /fɪʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | fish /fɪʃ/ fishes /ˈfɪʃɪz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Plural of fish by meaning
- a typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of...: fish or fishes
- a period of time spent fishing.: fishes
Fishes in a sentence
- The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.From the entry fishes
- Jawless fishes, such as lampreys, often have large and sharp teeth.From the entry jawless
- He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.From the entry fishes
Meaning of fish
- noun A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
- noun Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
- noun Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Plural the same as the singular
Questions about the plural of fish
- What is the plural of fish?
- The plural of fish is fish or fishes.
- Is fish countable?
- Fish is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fish (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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