Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paper airplane

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables
pa-per air-plane
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.

American usage

noun

An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).

American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

paper airplanes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

aerogami vaporware paper aeroplane rubber band airplane

Synonyms

paper plane paper flier paper flyer paper dart dart

Questions

What does paper airplane mean?
A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.

How to pronounce paper airplane

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