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say it: HEL-i-kahp-tur
helicopter is a noun meaning "an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades". It carries one recorded sense.
an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for helicopter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.