paddleboat
/ˈpædəlˌboʊt/noun
paddleboat is a noun meaning “A boat propelled by a paddle wheel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-D-D-L-E-B-O-A-T, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paddleboat is paddleboats.
What does paddleboat mean?
noun
- 1
A boat propelled by a paddle wheel
- 2
AustraliaCanadaUSa pedalo
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paddleboat?
- US /ˈpædəlˌboʊt/
- UK /ˈpædəlˌbəʊt/
- Australia /ˈpædəlˌbəʉt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-paddleboat.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paddleboat
- paddleboats plural
- paddle boat
- paddle-boat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paddleboat?
Paddleboat appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 paddleboat come from?
From paddle + boat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).