Definitions for mackerel

mackerel mack·er·el

Spelling: [mak-er-uh l, mak-ruh l]
IPA: /ˈmæk ər əl, ˈmæk rəl/

Mackerel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in mackerel (aceeklmr).

Definitions for mackerel

noun

  1. a food fish, Scomber scombrus, of the North Atlantic, having wavy cross markings on the back.
  2. Spanish mackerel.
  3. any of various similar fishes, as the Atka mackerel.

Origin of mackerel

1250-1300; Middle English Old French, perhaps same word as Middle French maquerel pimp Middle Dutch makelare broker (by metathesis), equivalent to makel(en) to bring together + -are Examples for mackerel

Say, John, couldn't you subpoena a school of mackerel for me?

Her husband was lost at the 'mackerel' two years for Easter.

Its occupant had just departed for a week's cruise as mate of a mackerel schooner.

The piece de resistance of the dinner was, in this instance, to be a mackerel.

Grease a baking-tin, and lay one of the mackerel, skin downwards, on it.

Oh, I hope there wan't any bones in that mackerel Heman's cat got away with.

If you'd told him he'd been swallowed by a mackerel he wouldn't have said no.

There were a few bluefish there, also, and a small school of mackerel.

The captain helped himself to another fried "tinker" mackerel.

On April 6th, 1892, six thousand mackerel were despatched to the English market.

Word Value for mackerel
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

Similar words for mackerel
Word of the day