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aerie

noun

aerie is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of eyrie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-I-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aerie is aeries.

What does aerie mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USUS standard spelling of eyrie.

  2. 2

    A local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

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

How do you pronounce aerie?

  • US

Aerie has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-aerie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of aerie

  • aeries plural

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

How common is aerie?

Aerie appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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).