aeronautic
/ˌɛəɹəˈnɔːtɪk/adjective
aeronautic is an adjective meaning “Having to do with aerial navigation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-O-N-A-U-T-I-C and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does aeronautic mean?
adjective
- 1
Having to do with aerial navigation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aeronautic?
- /ˌɛəɹəˈnɔːtɪk/
Aeronautic has 4 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)-NaomiAmethyst-aeronautic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aeronautic
- more aeronautic comparative
- most aeronautic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aeronautic?
Aeronautic appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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).
Aeronautic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having to do with aerial navigation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aeronautique |
| German | aeronautisch |
| Portuguese | aeronáutico |
| Spanish | aeronáutico |
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 aeronautic come from?
From aeronaut + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).