dropzone
noun
dropzone is a noun meaning “The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-R-O-P-Z-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dropzone is dropzones.
What does dropzone mean?
noun
- 1
The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dropzone
- dropzones plural
- drop zone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dropzone?
Dropzone appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate dropzone?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dropzone: DZ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dropzone come from?
From drop + zone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).