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 and divides as a-e-ro-foil under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.