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AED

noun

AED is a noun meaning “Initialism of automated external defibrillator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-D, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of AED is AEDs.

What does AED mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of automated external defibrillator.

  2. 2

    Initialism of antiepileptic drug.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of AED

  • AEDs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is AED?

AED appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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).

AED in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense automated external defibrillator:

LanguageWords
FrenchDAE, DEA

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.