aerodrome

noun

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"aerodrome" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“aerodrome” is uncommon English (frequency #50,342 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,342
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An airfield

Corpus desk

Index EN-aerodrome · aerodrome · English

aerodrome · rank #50,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,342
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH adulterous

Nearest frequency peer: adulterous (-1 rank slots)

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Long-tail ranks near “aerodrome”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “aerodrome” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aerodrome
PropertyValue
Headwordaerodrome
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#50,342
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “aerodrome” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).aerodromefalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “adulterous” (#50,341), “aftercare” (#50,343), “Agni” (#50,344). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “aerodrome” is #50,342. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aerodrome is uncommon English at frequency #50,342 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aerodrome, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: * (aircraft): In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ἀεροδρόμος (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”). * (airfield): In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- + -drome, a suffix for… The correct English form is aerodrome, spelled A-E-R-O-D-R-O-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    An airfield
  2. 2
    An airfield:
  3. 3
    An airfield:
  4. 4
    An airfield:
  5. 5
    A flying machine composed of aeroplanes (“airfoils, aerodynamic surfaces”). An aeroplane (“airplane, aircraft”), particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aerodrome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. As a result of the accident at Southend Airport when a Hermes aircraft overshot the runway and fouled the down Shenfield to Southend Victoria line between Rochford and Prittlewell, the Eastern Region is considering warning arrangements, which have already been provided on some lines running past aerodromes.
  2. Any person authorised by the Governor shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to any aerodrome other than a Royal Air Force aerodrome for the purpose of inspecting the aerodrome,[…].

Etymology

* (aircraft): In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ἀεροδρόμος (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”). * (airfield): In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- + -drome, a suffix formed in analogy with hippodrome (“horse racecourse”), from Ancient Greek.

This word in other languages

aeródromo(Español)aérodrome(Français)Flugplatz(Deutsch)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aerodrome"?
"aerodrome" is spelled A-E-R-O-D-R-O-M-E.
What does "aerodrome" mean?
As a noun, "aerodrome" means: An airfield
What is the origin of the word "aerodrome"?
* (aircraft): In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ἀεροδρόμος (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”). * (airfield): In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- + -drome, a ... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aerodrome", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aftercare#50,343axiomatic#50,367barbarous#50,371visualise#50,309

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list