airlift

Other forms of airlift

plural

airlifts·

past tense

airlifted·

present participle

airlifting·

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 airlift

What does airlift mean?

airlift means "transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airlift?

airlift has 2 syllables: air-lift. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌlɪft/.

What is another word for airlift?

Close synonyms include lift, lift. 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 airlift a common word?

airlift is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 airlift?

1 word rhymes with airlift. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.