airport

Other forms of airport

plural

airports·

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 airport

What does airport mean?

airport means "an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo".

How many syllables are in airport?

airport has 2 syllables: air-port. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌpɔɹt/.

What is another word for airport?

Close synonyms include airdrome, aerodrome, drome. 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 airport a common word?

airport is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 airport?

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