turboshaft
noun
turboshaft is a noun meaning “A gas-turbine engine designed to transmit power by means of a geared shaft, used in helicopters and for land and marine vehicular and stationary…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-U-R-B-O-S-H-A-F-T, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of turboshaft is turboshafts.
What does turboshaft mean?
noun
- 1
A gas-turbine engine designed to transmit power by means of a geared shaft, used in helicopters and for land and marine vehicular and stationary applications.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of turboshaft
- turboshafts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is turboshaft?
Turboshaft appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Turboshaft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense gas-turbine engine designed to transmit power by means of a geared shaft:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | turbomoteur |
| German | Wellenturbine |
| Portuguese | turboeixo |
| Spanish | turboeje |
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 turboshaft come from?
From turbo- + shaft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).