seaplane

Other forms of seaplane

plural

seaplanes·

past tense

seaplaned·

present participle

seaplaning·

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 seaplane

What does seaplane mean?

seaplane means "an airplane that can land on or take off from water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seaplane?

seaplane has 3 syllables: se-a-plane. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for seaplane?

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

seaplane 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.