steamboats
"steamboats" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“steamboats” is uncommon English (frequency #55,771 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,771
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Drunk; intoxicated.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steamboats |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “steamboats” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
steamboats is uncommon English at frequency #55,771 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Drunk; intoxicated.".
steamboats doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps from Steamboat Willie, rhyming slang for silly, or perhaps from a stereotype of steamboat passengers getting drunk. The correct English form is steamboats, spelled S-T-E-A-M-B-O-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Drunk; intoxicated.
Etymology
Perhaps from Steamboat Willie, rhyming slang for silly, or perhaps from a stereotype of steamboat passengers getting drunk.
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 “steamboats”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-E-A-M-B-O-A-T-S - 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.