towboat

Questions about towboat

What does towboat mean?

towboat means "a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships".

How many syllables are in towboat?

towboat has 2 syllables: tow-boat. The stress falls on "tow". In IPA it is /ˈtoʊˌboʊt/.

What is another word for towboat?

Close synonyms include tugboat, tug, tower. 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 towboat a common word?

towboat 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 towboat?

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