airmail

Other forms of airmail

plural

airmails·

past tense

airmailed·

present participle

airmailing·

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 airmail

What does airmail mean?

airmail means "letters and packages that are transported by aircraft". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airmail?

airmail has 2 syllables: air-mail. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌmeɪl/.

What is another word for airmail?

Close synonyms include airpost. 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 airmail a common word?

airmail 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 airmail?

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