buoy

Other forms of buoy

plural

buoys·

past tense

buoyed·

present participle

buoying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buoy

What does buoy mean?

buoy means "float on the surface of water". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buoy?

buoy has 2 syllables: bu-oy. The stress falls on "bu". In IPA it is /ˈbui/.

What is another word for buoy?

Close synonyms include buoy up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buoy a common word?

buoy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.