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Plural of sailboat

regular plural

The plural of sailboat is sailboats.

Forms of sailboat

Singularsailboat /ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/
Pluralsailboats
Countablecountable

Sailboats in a sentence

  • I'm a technonerd about all things that concern airplanes and sailboats.1989 March, Flying Magazine, volume 116, number 3, page 104. From the entry technonerd
  • They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine.1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic. From the entry slooplike
  • Unfortunately, low winds were the rule over the local waters and this craft was no better, if as good, as ordinary sailboats under such conditions.1989, Bernard Smith, Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-speed Sailing, →ISBN. From the entry low
  • People along rivers and the coast who used rowboats and small sailboats for fishing and ferrying learned to dread the sound of a paddlewheeler coming through the mist.1987, Bob Whittier, Paddle wheel steamers and their giant engines, page 39. From the entry paddlewheeler

Meaning of sailboat

  1. noun A boat propelled by a sail.
  2. noun A playing card with the rank of four.
  3. verb To travel by sailboat.

Full definition of sailboat

Questions about the plural of sailboat

What is the plural of sailboat?
The plural of sailboat is sailboats.
Is sailboat countable?
Sailboat is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sailboat (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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