What is a group of herring called?

Collective Noun for Herring. The collective noun for herring is the word you would use to describe a group of herring.

We have identified the following word(s) that you could call a group of herring:

army
shoal

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the army of herring", where "army" is the collective noun that means group.

As you can see, you simply substitute the word "group" with one of the collective nouns on our list above when describing a group of herring.

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