mailboat

Questions about mailboat

What does mailboat mean?

mailboat means "a boat for carrying mail".

How many syllables are in mailboat?

mailboat has 3 syllables and divides as ma-il-boat 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 mailboat?

Close synonyms include mail boat, packet, packet boat. 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 mailboat a common word?

mailboat 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mailboat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.