turboprop
noun
turboprop is a noun meaning “A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-U-R-B-O-P-R-O-P and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of turboprop is turboprops.
What does turboprop mean?
noun
- 1
A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
- 2
An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce turboprop?
Turboprop has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of turboprop
- turboprops plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is turboprop?
Turboprop appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th 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).
Turboprop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of gas-turbine aircraft engine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | turbopropulseur |
| German | Turboprop, Propellerturbine, PTL, Propellerturbinenluftstrahltriebwerk |
| Portuguese | turboélice |
| Spanish | turbohélice, turbopropulsor |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does turboprop come from?
From turbo- + prop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).