airboat
noun
airboat is a noun meaning “A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-R-B-O-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of airboat is airboats.
What does airboat mean?
noun
- 1
A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce airboat?
Airboat has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of airboat
- airboats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is airboat?
Airboat appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Airboat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense flat-bottomed boat driven by an air propeller:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydroglisseur |
| German | Sumpfboot |
| Portuguese | aerobarco |
| Spanish | hidrodeslizador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does airboat come from?
From air + boat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).