landfall

What does landfall mean?

landfall means "the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in landfall?

landfall has 2 syllables: land-fall. The stress falls on "land". In IPA it is /ˈlændˌfɔl/.

Is landfall a common word?

landfall is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 landfall?

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

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for landfall 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.