dinghy

Other forms of dinghy

plural

dinghies·

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 dinghy

What does dinghy mean?

dinghy means "a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled".

How many syllables are in dinghy?

dinghy has 2 syllables: ding-hy. The stress falls on "ding". In IPA it is /ˈdɪŋi/.

What is another word for dinghy?

Close synonyms include dory, rowboat. 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 dinghy a common word?

dinghy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.