waterline

Questions about waterline

What does waterline mean?

waterline means "a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship".

How many syllables are in waterline?

waterline has 3 syllables and divides as wa-ter-line 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 waterline?

Close synonyms include water line, water level. 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 waterline a common word?

waterline 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.