windfall

1. 1.

   fruit that has fallen from the tree

   Broaderedible fruit
2. 2.

   a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

   “the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”

   Synonymsboombonanzagold rushgravygodsendmanna from heavenbunce

   Broaderhappening

Other forms of windfall

plural

windfalls·

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 windfall

What does windfall mean?

windfall means "fruit that has fallen from the tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in windfall?

windfall has 2 syllables: wind-fall. The stress falls on "wind". In IPA it is /ˈwɪndˌfɔl/.

What is another word for windfall?

Close synonyms include boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend. 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 windfall a common word?

windfall is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 windfall?

11 words rhyme with windfall. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.