highwater

Questions about highwater

What does highwater mean?

highwater means "the tide when the water is highest".

How many syllables are in highwater?

highwater has 3 syllables and divides as high-wa-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for highwater?

Close synonyms include high tide, high water. 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 highwater a common word?

highwater 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.