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waterboy

noun

waterboy is spelled W-A-T-E-R-B-O-Y: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, waterboy means “Alternative spelling of water boy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of waterboy is waterboys.

How many letters and syllables are in waterboy?

Letters8: W-A-T-E-R-B-O-Y
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th 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 waterboy?

Waterboy appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).

Words people confuse with waterboy

Also written: water boy (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of waterboy

  • waterboys plural

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

What does waterboy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of water boy.

    If the court now scuttles that precedent in deference to the culture wars, its majority members should refrain from pretending to be an independent branch of government and just acknowledge that they’re partisan waterboys for a Republican W

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

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