rainfly

Questions about rainfly

What does rainfly mean?

rainfly means "flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent".

How many syllables are in rainfly?

rainfly has 2 syllables: rain-fly. The stress falls on "rain".

What is another word for rainfly?

Close synonyms include tent-fly, fly sheet, fly, tent flap. 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 rainfly a common word?

rainfly 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.