how to pronounce sunfish

/ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/

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sunfish is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sunfish in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… of the pumpkin seed sunfish just swam …”

meanings of sunfish

noun:

Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.

sunfish frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sunfish occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sunfish can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sunfish can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;