seabed
noun
seabed is spelled S-E-A-B-E-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seabed means “The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seabed is seabeds.
How many letters and syllables are in seabed?
| Letters | 6: S-E-A-B-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is seabed?
Seabed appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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).
How do you pronounce seabed?
Seabed has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-seabed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with seabed
Also written: sea bed (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with seabed?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seabed.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: debase.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of seabed
- seabeds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seabed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.
Near-synonym: Davy Jones's locker
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seabed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense floor or bottom of the sea or ocean:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fond marin |
| German | Meeresboden |
| Portuguese | fundo do mar, solo oceânico |
| Spanish | fondo del mar, lecho marino, fondo marino |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does seabed come from?
From sea + bed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).