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watersport

noun

watersport is spelled W-A-T-E-R-S-P-O-R-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, watersport means “Any sport played on or in water; such as swimming or water skiing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of watersport is watersports.

How many letters and syllables are in watersport?

Letters10: W-A-T-E-R-S-P-O-R-T
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th 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 watersport?

Watersport appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).

Forms of watersport

  • watersports plural
  • water sport

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

What does watersport mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any sport played on or in water; such as swimming or water skiing.

  2. 2

    rareSynonym of watersports (“sexual practice involving urine”).

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

Watersport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsport aquatique (sport), uro (sexual practice)
Portugueseesporte aquático (sport)

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 watersport come from?

From water + sport.

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

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