tailplane

Questions about tailplane

What does tailplane mean?

tailplane means "the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged".

How many syllables are in tailplane?

tailplane has 2 syllables and divides as tail-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.

What is another word for tailplane?

Close synonyms include horizontal stabilizer, horizontal stabiliser. 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 tailplane a common word?

tailplane 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.