air base
/ɛːɹ beiːs/
"air-base" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“air base” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-air-base · air base · English
air base · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | air base |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛːɹ beiːs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “air base” in English
Rare enough to double-check
air base is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɛːɹ beiːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for air base, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From air + base. The correct English form is air base, spelled A-I-R- -B-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how air base appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and w…
Etymology
From air + base.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.