floodway
noun
floodway is a noun meaning “An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-D-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floodway is floodways.
What does floodway mean?
noun
- 1
An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of floodway
- floodways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floodway?
Floodway appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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 floodway come from?
From flood + way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).