turbofan

Other forms of turbofan

plural

turbofans·

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 turbofan

What does turbofan mean?

turbofan means "an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turbofan?

turbofan has 3 syllables: tur-bo-fan. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝboʊˌfæn/.

What is another word for turbofan?

Close synonyms include fanjet, fan-jet, turbojet, fanjet, fan-jet. 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 turbofan a common word?

turbofan 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.

What rhymes with turbofan?

1 word rhymes with turbofan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.