flatboat

Other forms of flatboat

plural

flatboats·

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 flatboat

What does flatboat mean?

flatboat means "a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)".

How many syllables are in flatboat?

flatboat has 2 syllables: flat-boat. The stress falls on "flat". In IPA it is /ˈflætˌboʊt/.

What is another word for flatboat?

Close synonyms include barge, hoy, lighter. 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 flatboat a common word?

flatboat 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 flatboat?

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