watercraft

Other forms of watercraft

plural

watercrafts·

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 watercraft

What does watercraft mean?

watercraft means "skill in the management of boats". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watercraft?

watercraft has 3 syllables: wa-ter-craft. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for watercraft?

Close synonyms include vessel. 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 watercraft a common word?

watercraft 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.