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airsick

adjective

airsick is spelled A-I-R-S-I-C-K: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, airsick means “Nauseated due to the effects of motion of an aircraft; suffering from motion sickness caused by air travel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in airsick?

Letters7: A-I-R-S-I-C-K
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is airsick?

Airsick appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 airsick?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-airsick.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of airsick

  • more airsick comparative
  • most airsick superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does airsick mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Nauseated due to the effects of motion of an aircraft; suffering from motion sickness caused by air travel.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does airsick come from?

From air + sick.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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