flatboat
noun
flatboat is a noun meaning “A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-B-O-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flatboat is flatboats.
What does flatboat mean?
noun
- 1
A boxy, flat-bottomed boat used for carrying livestock, freight, and people on rivers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flatboat?
Flatboat 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 flatboat
- flatboats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatboat?
Flatboat appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 flatboat come from?
From flat + boat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).