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seaworthiness

noun

seaworthiness is spelled S-E-A-W-O-R-T-H-I-N-E-S-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seaworthiness means “The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in seaworthiness?

Letters13: S-E-A-W-O-R-T-H-I-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is seaworthiness?

Seaworthiness appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

What does seaworthiness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea.

    The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Seaworthiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of being fit to go to sea:

LanguageWords
GermanSeetüchtigkeit

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 seaworthiness come from?

From seaworthy + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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