What is a group of pilchards called?

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

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

shoal

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

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