force-land

1. 1.

   make a forced landing

   Broaderland

Questions about force-land

What does force-land mean?

force-land means "make a forced landing".

How many syllables are in force-land?

force-land has 3 syllables and divides as for-ce--land 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.

Is force-land a common word?

force-land 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.