airfoil

Other forms of airfoil

plural

airfoils·

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 airfoil

What does airfoil mean?

airfoil 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 airfoil?

airfoil has 2 syllables: air-foil. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌfɔɪl/.

What is another word for airfoil?

Close synonyms include aerofoil, 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 airfoil a common word?

airfoil 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.

What rhymes with airfoil?

2 words rhyme with airfoil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.