empennage

Other forms of empennage

plural

empennages·

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 empennage

What does empennage mean?

empennage means "the rear part of an aircraft".

How many syllables are in empennage?

empennage has 3 syllables: em-pen-nage. The stress falls on "em".

What is another word for empennage?

Close synonyms include tail, tail assembly. 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 empennage a common word?

empennage 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.