sailplaning

Questions about sailplaning

What does sailplaning mean?

sailplaning means "the activity of flying a glider".

How many syllables are in sailplaning?

sailplaning has 3 syllables and divides as sail-pla-ning 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 sailplaning?

Close synonyms include glide, gliding, soaring, sailing. 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 sailplaning a common word?

sailplaning 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.