What is a group of minnows called?

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

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

shoal
steam
swarm

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the shoal of minnows", where "shoal" 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 minnows.

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