floodwall
noun
floodwall is a noun meaning “A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-D-W-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floodwall is floodwalls.
What does floodwall mean?
noun
- 1
A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of floodwall
- floodwalls plural
- flood wall
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floodwall?
Floodwall appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 floodwall come from?
From flood + wall.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).