kon tiki

1. 1.

   a light raft made of balsa

   Synonymsbalsa raft

   Broaderraft

Questions about kon tiki

What does kon tiki mean?

kon tiki means "a light raft made of balsa".

What is another word for kon tiki?

Close synonyms include balsa raft. 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 kon tiki a common word?

kon tiki 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.