airborne

adjective, noun

airborne is spelled A-I-R-B-O-R-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is airbourne: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Airborne is an adjective meaning “In or carried by the air”.

How do you spell airborne?

Airborne is spelled A-I-R-B-O-R-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for airborne in either form.

airbornethe right spelling5,140 searches a month

airbournean extra u420 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

What does airborne mean?

adjective

1
In or carried by the air.
Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
2
In flight.
3
Fitted to an aircraft.
airborne radar
4
Transported by air in an aircraft.
airborne troops

noun

1
Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce airborne?

Airborne has 2 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)-Wodencafe-airborne.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of airborne

airbornes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is airborne?

Airborne appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form in the list.

airborne0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate airborne?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of airborne: AB, ABN.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Airborne in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	aéroporté, transporté par l'air (carried by the air), en vol (in flight)
German	über die Luft transportiert (carried by the air)
Portuguese	transportado pelo ar, aerotransportado (carried by the air), em voo, voante (in flight)
Spanish	transportado por el aire, aerotransportado (carried by the air), volando (in flight)

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.