airplane

Other forms of airplane

plural

airplanes·

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 airplane

What does airplane mean?

airplane means "an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets".

How many syllables are in airplane?

airplane has 2 syllables: air-plane. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌpleɪn/.

What is another word for airplane?

Close synonyms include aeroplane, plane. 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 airplane a common word?

airplane is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 airplane?

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