aluminum foil

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   foil made of aluminum

   Synonymsaluminium foiltin foil

   Broaderfoil

Questions about aluminum foil

What does aluminum foil mean?

aluminum foil means "foil made of aluminum".

What is another word for aluminum foil?

Close synonyms include aluminium foil, tin foil. 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 aluminum foil a common word?

aluminum foil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.