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 many letters and syllables are in airborne?
| Letters | 8: A-I-R-B-O-R-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, airbourne, about 420 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
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.
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.
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.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce airborne?
- US
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).
What does airborne mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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 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 , en vol |
| German | über die Luft transportiert |
| Portuguese | transportado pelo ar, aerotransportado , em voo, voante |
| Spanish | transportado por el aire, aerotransportado , volando |
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.