aerator
noun
aerator is a noun meaning “A device which mixes air with a substance, particularly soil or a liquid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aerator is aerators.
What does aerator mean?
noun
- 1
A device which mixes air with a substance, particularly soil or a liquid.
faucet aerator
- 2
A device used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
- 3
A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungi and insects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aerator
- aerators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aerator?
Aerator appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).
Aerator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a device which mixes air with a substance:
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 aerator come from?
From aerate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).