floatplane
noun
floatplane is a noun meaning “A seaplane that has floats for landing or taking off from the water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-A-T-P-L-A-N-E, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floatplane is floatplanes.
What does floatplane mean?
noun
- 1
A seaplane that has floats for landing or taking off from the water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of floatplane
- floatplanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floatplane?
Floatplane appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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 floatplane come from?
From float + plane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).