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say it: wing
wing is a noun and verb meaning "a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)". It carries 12 recorded senses.
a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
(in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
“they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party”
the wing of a fowl
“he preferred the drumsticks to the wings”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.