steamboats
"steamboats" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“steamboats” is uncommon English (frequency #55,771 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,771
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drunk; intoxicated.
Corpus desk
Index EN-steamboats · steamboats · English
steamboats · rank #55,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,771
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Steinway
Nearest frequency peer: Steinway (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “steamboats”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- springy
springy
44,237 corpus weight
- spritz
spritz
44,236 corpus weight
- steamboats
steamboats
44,230 corpus weight
- Steinway
Steinway
44,228 corpus weight
- stepbrother
stepbrother
44,227 corpus weight
- stocker
stocker
44,225 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “steamboats” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “steamboats” in English
Rare enough to double-check
steamboats is uncommon English at frequency #55,771 among 6,566 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how steamboats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joe and The Tongue especially are absolutely steamboats by the time we reach the Niccy, and the 'bouncers' – furtive damp chemistry teachers on an ego trip – turn us all sneeringly away in their clean-spitting accents:
Somebody absolutely steamboats he says on sweet warm wine swigged plaincover from a paper bag squats in a puddle with nothing to sell […]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).