airstrip

Other forms of airstrip

plural

airstrips·

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 airstrip

What does airstrip mean?

airstrip means "an airfield without normal airport facilities".

How many syllables are in airstrip?

airstrip has 2 syllables: air-strip. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌstɹɪp/.

What is another word for airstrip?

Close synonyms include flight strip, landing strip, strip. 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 airstrip a common word?

airstrip is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 airstrip?

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