Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

johnboat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: john-boat
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a flat-bottomed boat with a very shallow draft, whose bow and stern are both squared off

Example Sentences

"Eddie liked to take his johnboat into the shallow, reedy, sandbars that the out-of-town fishermen, with their big, expensive, fiberglass bassboats, couldn't reach."

Inflected Forms

johnboats (plural) jon boat (alternative)

Derived Forms

johnboater

Questions

What does johnboat mean?: a flat-bottomed boat with a very shallow draft, whose bow and stern are both squared off

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