raft

1. 1.

   transport on a raft

   “raft wood down a river”

   Broadertransport

   navigation

2. 2.

   travel by raft in water

   “Raft the Colorado River”

   Broadertravel
3. 3.

   make into a raft

   “raft these logs”

   Broadermanufacture

Other forms of raft

plural

rafts·

past tense

rafted·

present participle

rafting·

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 raft

What does raft mean?

raft means "a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raft?

raft has 1 syllable: raft. In IPA it is /ˈɹæft/.

What is another word for raft?

Close synonyms include batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal. 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 raft a common word?

raft is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.