boaty
/ˈboʊti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We compromised by calling it a geyesmeyer, a word coined by a boaty friend of ours, and used quite profusely by him to describe anything from a bilge-pump to a rhinoceros."
- "Passengers, they meant, not hands. But I found the mistake charming in a boaty kind of way. They were the real thing, these sailors, with salty New England accents and what might have been called coarse manners in a nineteenth-century novel."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈboʊti/
- British English: /ˈbəʊti/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more boaty (comparative)
most boaty (superlative)