ferryboat

1. 1.

   a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

   Synonymsferry

   Broaderboat

   Narrowercar-ferry

Other forms of ferryboat

plural

ferryboats·

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 ferryboat

What does ferryboat mean?

ferryboat means "a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule".

How many syllables are in ferryboat?

ferryboat has 3 syllables: fer-ry-boat. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /ˈfɛɹiˌboʊt/.

What is another word for ferryboat?

Close synonyms include ferry. 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 ferryboat a common word?

ferryboat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 ferryboat?

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