hydrofoil

Other forms of hydrofoil

plural

hydrofoils·

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 hydrofoil

What does hydrofoil mean?

hydrofoil means "a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hydrofoil?

hydrofoil has 3 syllables: hy-dro-foil. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪdɹəˌfɔɪl/.

What is another word for hydrofoil?

Close synonyms include foil, hydroplane. 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 hydrofoil a common word?

hydrofoil 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.

What rhymes with hydrofoil?

2 words rhyme with hydrofoil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.