aerofoil

Other forms of aerofoil

plural

aerofoils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aerofoil

What does aerofoil mean?

aerofoil means "a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight".

How many syllables are in aerofoil?

aerofoil has 4 syllables: a-e-ro-foil. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for aerofoil?

Close synonyms include airfoil, control surface, surface. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aerofoil a common word?

aerofoil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.