Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

v-22

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables: v-22
IPA

4

Scrabble Score

1

Letters

2

Syllables

1

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ellipsis of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.

Example Sentences

"Even the Navy has jumped back into the Osprey game with the decision to use a variant of the V-22 as a replacement for the aging C-2 Greyhound, a fixed-wing cargo plane used to ferry material and personnel on and off Navy supercarriers at sea. And other nations are now interested in procuring the V-22."
"Air Force Special Operations Command said in a release Wednesday evening that Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, commander of AFSOC, directed an “operational standdown” of the Air Force’s CV-22 fleet “to mitigate risk while the investigation continues” into last week’s crash. Naval Air Systems Command also said Wednesday it was grounding the Navy and Marine Corps’ V-22s out of “an abundance of caution” as the CV-22 crash is investigated."

Inflected Forms

V-22s (plural)

Questions

What does v-22 mean?: Ellipsis of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.

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