tailwind

1. 1.

   wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft

   Broaderwind

Other forms of tailwind

plural

tailwinds·

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 tailwind

What does tailwind mean?

tailwind means "wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft".

How many syllables are in tailwind?

tailwind has 2 syllables and divides as tail-wind 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.