airmanship
noun
airmanship is a noun meaning “Skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-R-M-A-N-S-H-I-P, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does airmanship mean?
noun
- 1
Skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is airmanship?
Airmanship appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Airmanship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | professionnalisme aéronautique, qualités de pilote |
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 airmanship come from?
From airman + -ship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).