aeronaut
/ˈɛɹəˌnɔt/noun
aeronaut is a noun meaning “A person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-O-N-A-U-T, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aeronaut is aeronauts or aëronauts.
What does aeronaut mean?
noun
- 1
A person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon.
noun
- 1
Dated spelling of aeronaut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aeronaut?
- UK /ˈɛəɹəˌnɔːt/
- US /ˈɛɹəˌnɔt/
- /ˈɛɹəˌnɑt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aeronaut.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aeronaut
- aeronauts plural
- aëronaut
- aëronauts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aeronaut?
Aeronaut appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
Aeronaut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who glides through the air in an airship:
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 aeronaut come from?
From aero- + -naut, from the French aéronaute; compare the Italian aeronauta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).