motorboat
/ˈməʊtəˌbəʊt/
"motorboat" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“motorboat” is uncommon English (frequency #53,118 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,118
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motorboat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈməʊtəˌbəʊt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “motorboat” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
motorboat is uncommon English at frequency #53,118 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈməʊtəˌbəʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.".
motorboat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From motor + boat. The correct English form is motorboat, spelled M-O-T-O-R-B-O-A-T.
Definition
- 1Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.
Etymology
From motor + boat.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “motorboat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-T-O-R-B-O-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.