Fish That Start With Every Letter
Here are fish that start with every letter from A to Z: 267 in all, with examples for each letter and a full page for every letter that has enough of them.
This list holds 267 fish across the alphabet. S tops the chart at 44, then B with 30, C with 26 and M with 20, so those are safe picks in any game.
The tricky letters each have just one fish: quillback for Q, unicornfish for U and x-ray tetra for X. I has only the icefish and the ide, and V has the vendace and the viperfish. Z offers the zander and the zebrafish. Memorize those few and you can finish an A to Z fish challenge without getting stuck.
- Fish listed
- 267
- Most common first letter
- S
Fish by letter
| Letter | How many | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| A | 10 | anchovy, albacore, angelfish, anglerfish, argentine |
| B | 30 | bass, barracuda, bull shark, blowfish, brown trout |
| C | 26 | cod, catfish, carp, coelacanth, chinook salmon |
| D | 7 | danio, discus, drum, dory, dogfish |
| E | 5 | eel, electric ray, electric eel, eagle ray, electric catfish |
| F | 5 | flying fish, flounder, flathead, flashlight fish, flatfish |
| G | 13 | goldfish, grouper, guppy, gourami, grunt |
| H | 7 | herring, haddock, halibut, hammerhead, hagfish |
| I | 2 | icefish, ide |
| J | 3 | jack, john dory, jack mackerel |
| K | 6 | king salmon, koi, kokanee, kingfish, killifish |
| L | 11 | lionfish, lungfish, lamprey, ling, lemon shark |
| M | 20 | mackerel, marlin, mullet, minnow, monkfish |
| N | 4 | nurse shark, northern pike, needlefish, neon tetra |
| O | 5 | opah, orange roughy, oarfish, ocean perch, ocean pout |
| P | 17 | pike, perch, pollock, piranha, parrotfish |
| Q | 1 | quillback |
| R | 17 | ray, rainbow trout, red snapper, roach, rock beauty |
| S | 44 | sole, shark, salmon, sturgeon, snapper |
| T | 11 | trout, tuna, tetra, tiger shark, tilapia |
| U | 1 | unicornfish |
| V | 2 | vendace, viperfish |
| W | 11 | white shark, whitefish, walleye, whale shark, whiting |
| X | 1 | x-ray tetra |
| Y | 6 | yellowfin, yellow perch, yellow tang, yellow jack, yellow bass |
| Z | 2 | zander, zebrafish |
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Questions people ask
Which letter do the most fish start with?
S, with 44 on this site's list.
Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.