rowboat
/ˈɹəʊbəʊt/
"rowboat" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rowboat” is uncommon English (frequency #61,085 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,085
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).
Corpus desk
Index EN-rowboat · rowboat · English
rowboat · rank #61,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,085
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Roxburgh
Nearest frequency peer: Roxburgh (+1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “rowboat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rosewater
rosewater
38,919 corpus weight
- Rossiter
Rossiter
38,918 corpus weight
- rowboat
rowboat
38,916 corpus weight
- Roxburgh
Roxburgh
38,915 corpus weight
- rundle
rundle
38,914 corpus weight
- sahih
sahih
38,912 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rowboat” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rowboat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹəʊbəʊt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rowboat” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rowboat is uncommon English at frequency #61,085 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹəʊbəʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).".
No misspelling variants are generated for rowboat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From row + boat. The correct English form is rowboat, spelled R-O-W-B-O-A-T.
Definition
- 1A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).
Etymology
From row + 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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