hydroplane

1. 1.

   glide on the water in a hydroplane

   Synonymsseaplane

   Broaderfly

Other forms of hydroplane

plural

hydroplanes·

past tense

hydroplaned·

present participle

hydroplaning·

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 hydroplane

What does hydroplane mean?

hydroplane means "an airplane that can land on or take off from water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hydroplane?

hydroplane has 3 syllables and divides as hy-dro-plane 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 hydroplane?

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

hydroplane 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.