shipbuilder

Other forms of shipbuilder

plural

shipbuilders·

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 shipbuilder

What does shipbuilder mean?

shipbuilder means "a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shipbuilder?

shipbuilder has 3 syllables: ship-buil-der. The stress falls on "ship". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪpˌbɪldɚ/.

What is another word for shipbuilder?

Close synonyms include shipwright, ship builder, ship builder. 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 shipbuilder a common word?

shipbuilder 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.

What rhymes with shipbuilder?

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