sailplane

Other forms of sailplane

plural

sailplanes·

past tense

sailplaned·

present participle

sailplaning·

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 sailplane

What does sailplane mean?

sailplane means "aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sailplane?

sailplane has 2 syllables: sail-plane. The stress falls on "sail".

What is another word for sailplane?

Close synonyms include glider, soar. 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 sailplane a common word?

sailplane 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.