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tailfins

tailfins is the plural of tailfin.

Meaning of tailfin

Noun

tailfin (plural tailfins)

  1. A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin
  2. A fin on the tail of an aircraft, vertical stabilizer
  3. A fin-like projection at the rear of a car, common on American cars of the 1950s.

Questions about tailfins

What is tailfins the plural of?
Tailfins is the plural of tailfin.

Words near tailfins in the dictionary

  1. tailfan
  2. tailfans
  3. tailfeather
  4. tailfeathers
  5. tailfin
  6. tailfins
  7. tailfirst
  8. tailflip
  9. tailflipping
  10. tailflips
  11. tailflower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailfins (page history and authors); tailfin (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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