Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wifferdill

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wif-fer-dill
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel.

Example Sentences

"Doolittle executed a grand wifferdill—rapidly climbing to exchange airspeed for altitude—after completing the course, then a perfect landing."
"When not breeding, they whirl in rings above the earth, dive for flies with gaping, froglike mouths, and perform whifferdales and rolls, glancing in and out of sight."

Inflected Forms

wifferdills (plural) whifferdale (alternative) whifferdill (alternative)

Questions

What does wifferdill mean?: An elaborate, multiaxis aerobatic manoeuvre, especially one in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel.

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