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-copter

-copter suffix: referring to a vehicle that works with one or more vertical rotors similar to that of a helicopter.

Suffix

-copter

  1. referring to a vehicle that works with one or more vertical rotors similar to that of a helicopter

Origin of -copter

The clipped form copter predates it, which raises the question of compounding versus affixing, but regardless, it is now widely reanalyzed as a suffix derived from helicopter.

Questions about -copter

What does -copter mean?
-copter means referring to a vehicle that works with one or more vertical rotors similar to that of a helicopter.
What part of speech is -copter?
-copter is a suffix.

Words near -copter in the dictionary

  1. -colous
  2. -con
  3. -conazole
  4. -cont-
  5. -conta-
  6. -copter
  7. -core
  8. -corn
  9. -cort
  10. -cort-
  11. -cos-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -copter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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