aircraft
air·craft/ˈɛɚ.kɹæft/noun
aircraft is spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T, 2 syllables: air·craft. The wrong spelling people search most is aicraft: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 143 of all searches for the word. Aircraft is a noun meaning “A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift”.
How many letters and syllables are in aircraft?
| Letters | 8: A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: air·craft |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, aicraft, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 aircraft?
Aircraft is spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 108 of the searches for aircraft 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 aircraft?
Aircraft appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 aircraft?
- UK /ˈɛə.kɹɑːft/
- UK /ˈɛː.kɹɑːft/
- US /ˈɛɚ.kɹæft/
Aircraft has 2 syllables, split air·craft in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aircraft mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
light aircraft
- 2
One that can carry a person or persons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate aircraft?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of aircraft: a/c, acft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aircraft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense machine capable of atmospheric 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.
Where does aircraft come from?
From air + -craft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).