seabed

Other forms of seabed

plural

seabeds·

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 seabed

What does seabed mean?

seabed means "the bottom of a sea or ocean".

How many syllables are in seabed?

seabed has 2 syllables: sea-bed. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsiˌbɛd/.

What is another word for seabed?

Close synonyms include ocean floor, sea floor, ocean bottom, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker. 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 seabed a common word?

seabed 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.

What rhymes with seabed?

9 words rhyme with seabed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.