iceboat

Other forms of iceboat

plural

iceboats·

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 iceboat

What does iceboat mean?

iceboat means "a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iceboat?

iceboat has 4 syllables: i-ce-bo-at. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for iceboat?

Close synonyms include icebreaker, ice yacht, scooter. 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 iceboat a common word?

iceboat 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.