fanjet

Other forms of fanjet

plural

fanjets·

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 fanjet

What does fanjet mean?

fanjet means "an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fanjet?

fanjet has 2 syllables and divides as fan-jet under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fanjet?

Close synonyms include fan-jet, turbofan, turbojet, fan-jet, fanjet engine. 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 fanjet a common word?

fanjet 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.