fathometer
noun
fathometer is a noun meaning “A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-T-H-O-M-E-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fathometer is fathometers.
What does fathometer mean?
noun
- 1
A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fathometer
- fathometers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fathometer?
Fathometer appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).
Where does fathometer come from?
From fathom (“nautical length measurement used for depth”) + -meter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).