pilothouse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wheelhouse.
noun
A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.
Example Sentences
- "The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house."
- "Suddenly I felt a deep pang of regret—for all those thousands of poor mortals who had not stood in a pilothouse and felt that surge of eager motion as some ancient riverboat slid through deep bayou waters and headed downstream. […] From the pilothouse I walked onto the hurricane deck and watched as the sun dropped behind the bearded oaks, casting long shadows across the limpid bayou."