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contrails

contrails is the plural of contrail.

contrails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of contrail.

Meaning of contrail

Noun

contrail (plural contrails)

  1. An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

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Questions about contrails

What is contrails the plural of?
Contrails is the plural of contrail.

Words near contrails in the dictionary

  1. contrahents
  2. contrahierba
  3. contrail
  4. contrailed
  5. contrailing
  6. contrails
  7. contraindicant
  8. contraindicants
  9. contraindicate
  10. contraindicated
  11. contraindicates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrails (page history and authors); contrail (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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