Tailplane

Definition: Tailplane

Tailplane

Noun

1. The horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged.

Domain	Definitions
Transportation	An aerodynamic surface fixed, movable or adjustable in flight, located aft of the main plane, contributing to longitudinal control and/or stability and which may add to, or subtract from, the total lift. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Tailplane

Synonym: horizontal stabilizer (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tailplane

English words defined with "tailplane": elevator. (references)

"Tailplane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tailplane" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	41	53,521

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tailplane": tailplane-elevator, tailplane-elevator-trim.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "tailplane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		haleplan (tail). (various references)

Dutch		stabilo (horizontal stabilizer), horizontaal staartvlak (horizontal stabilizer). (various references)

Finnish		korkeusvakautin. (various references)

French		stabilisateur, empennage horizontal. (various references)

German		höhenflosse (horizontal stabilizer, stabilizer). (various references)

Greek		οριζόντιο ουραίο πτέρωμα (horizontal stabilizer). (various references)

Italian		piano di coda. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		水平尾翼 (horizontal stabilizer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいへいびよく (horizontal stabilizer). (various references)

Manx		plaaney jerree. (various references)

Pig Latin		ailplanetay.(various references)

Portuguese		plano de cauda. (various references)

Spanish		plano de cola. (various references)

Swedish		stabilisator (stabiliser, stabilizer). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tailplane": tailplanes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-p-t"
	-1 letter: allanite, palatine, palliate.
	-2 letters: lanital, pantile, patella, patinae, planate, platane, platina.
	-3 letters: alpine, aplite, apneal, entail, lanate, lentil, lienal, lineal, lintel, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, pallia, pantie, patina, patine, penial, pinata, pineal, pineta, pintle, plaint, planet, platan, platen, pliant, taenia, taille, taipan, telial, tenail, tineal.
	-4 letters: alane, alant, alate, alien, aline, anile, antae, apian, apnea, elain, elint, entia, ileal, inapt, inept, inlet, lanai, lapel, lapin, laten, leant, leapt, lepta, liana, liane, natal, paean, paint, palea, palet, panel, paten, patin, penal, petal, pieta, pilea, pinta, plain, plait, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, telia, tenia, tepal, tinea.
	-5 letters: alae, alan, alit, anal, anil, anta, ante, anti, atap, elan, etna, ilea, lain, lane, late, lati, leal, lean, leap, lent, lept, lien, lilt, line, lint, lipa, lipe, lite, nail, nape, neap, neat, nill, nipa, nite, pail, pain, pale, pall, pane, pant, pate, peal, pean, peat, pein, pelt, pent, pial, pian, pile, pill, pina, pine, pint, pita, plan, plat, plea, plie, tael, tail, tain, tala, tale, tali, tall, tapa, tape, teal, tela, tell, tepa, tile, till, tine.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-p-t"
	+1 letter: tailplanes.
	+2 letters: appellation, implantable, patrilineal, perinatally, planetoidal.
	+3 letters: antiparallel, appellations, biparentally, palatialness, pedantically, planetesimal.
	+4 letters: explanatively, explanatorily, explorational, manipulatable, megalopolitan, operationally, palletization, planetesimals, pneumatically, uniparentally.
	+5 letters: antiseptically, manipulatively, megalopolitans, palatialnesses, paleobotanical, palletizations, planetological, pleonastically, unemphatically.
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