aerate
/ɛːˈɹeɪt/verb
aerate is a verb meaning “To supply with oxygen or air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-A-T-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does aerate mean?
verb
- 1
To supply with oxygen or air.
Blood is aerated in the lungs.
- 2
To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air.
Carbon dioxide aerated the drink and made it fizzy.
- 3
To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
The mousse was aerated by beating rapidly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aerate?
- /ˈɛːɹeɪt/
- UK /ɛːˈɹeɪt/
Aerate has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-aerate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aerate
- aerates present, singular, he/she/it
- aerating participle, present
- aerated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aerate?
Aerate appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Aerate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to supply with oxygen or air:
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 aerate come from?
From Latin aer (“air”) + English -ate. Compare French aérer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).