# airport vs airsoft

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### airport
*noun · IPA /ˈɛə.pɔːt/ · frequency rank #1,516*
An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.

### airsoft
*noun · frequency rank #43,499*
A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a type of air gun running compressed air or similar compressed gas (e.g., carbon dioxide).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/airport-vs-airsoft