u-boat

Questions about u-boat

What does u-boat mean?

u-boat means "a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes".

How many syllables are in u-boat?

u-boat has 3 syllables and divides as u--bo-at 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 u-boat?

Close synonyms include submarine, pigboat, sub. 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 u-boat a common word?

u-boat 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.