ski-plane

1. 1.

   an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield

   Broaderairplane

Questions about ski-plane

What does ski-plane mean?

ski-plane means "an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield".

How many syllables are in ski-plane?

ski-plane has 2 syllables and divides as ski--plane 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.

Is ski-plane a common word?

ski-plane 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.