forepeak
noun
forepeak is a noun meaning “The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-P-E-A-K, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forepeak is forepeaks.
What does forepeak mean?
noun
- 1
The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forepeak
- forepeaks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forepeak?
Forepeak appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 forepeak come from?
From fore- + peak.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).