tailfin

1. 1.

   a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane

   Synonymsvertical stabilizervertical stabiliservertical fintail fin

   Broaderstabilizer

   Part ofvertical tail
2. 2.

   one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile

   Synonymstail finfin

   Broaderdecoration

   Part ofcar

Other forms of tailfin

plural

tailfins·

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 tailfin

What does tailfin mean?

tailfin means "a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tailfin?

tailfin has 2 syllables: tail-fin. The stress falls on "tail".

What is another word for tailfin?

Close synonyms include vertical stabilizer, vertical stabiliser, vertical fin, tail fin, tail fin. 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 tailfin a common word?

tailfin 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.