air gun
/ˈeə(ɹ).ɡʌn/
"air-gun" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“air gun” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air or similar compressed gas (such as carbon dioxide).
Corpus desk
Index EN-air-gun · air gun · English
air gun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 gun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeə(ɹ).ɡʌn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “air gun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
air gun is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈeə(ɹ).ɡʌn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air or similar compressed gas (such as carbon dioxide).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for air gun, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is air gun, spelled A-I-R- -G-U-N.
Definition
- 1A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air or similar compressed gas (such as carbon dioxide).
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.