waterway

Other forms of waterway

plural

waterways·

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 waterway

What does waterway mean?

waterway means "a navigable body of water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waterway?

waterway has 3 syllables: wa-ter-way. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌweɪ/.

What is another word for waterway?

Close synonyms include watercourse. 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 waterway a common word?

waterway 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.

What rhymes with waterway?

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