airhead
/ˈɛːhɛd/
"airhead" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“airhead” is an uncommon English word, ranked #65,678 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,678
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | airhead |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛːhɛd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “airhead” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for airhead is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɛːhɛd/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,678 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for airhead, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From air + head (“foremost, topmost, or leading part”), sense 1 (“area of hostile territory seized for use as an airbase”) by analogy with beachhead and bridgehead. The correct English form is airhead, spelled A-I-R-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
- 2A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
- 3Alternative form of air-head (“a horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.”).
Etymology
From air + head (“foremost, topmost, or leading part”), sense 1 (“area of hostile territory seized for use as an airbase”) by analogy with beachhead and bridgehead.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “airhead”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-I-R-H-E-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.