canoe

Other forms of canoe

plural

canoes·

past tense

canoed·

present participle

canoing·

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 canoe

What does canoe mean?

canoe means "small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canoe?

canoe has 2 syllables: ca-noe. The stress falls on "noe". In IPA it is /kəˈnu/.

Is canoe a common word?

canoe 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.

What rhymes with canoe?

9 words rhyme with canoe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.