aircraft carrier
/ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft kʰɛɹːiɚ/
"aircraft-carrier" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aircraft carrier” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aircraft carrier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft kʰɛɹːiɚ/ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aircraft carrier” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aircraft carrier is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft kʰɛɹːiɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.".
aircraft carrier has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is aircraft carrier, spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T- -C-A-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.
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.
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Using “aircraft carrier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T- -C-A-R-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft kʰɛɹːiɚ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.