airworthiness
/ˈɛrwəɹðinɪs/noun
airworthiness is a noun meaning “The state of being airworthy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-R-W-O-R-T-H-I-N-E-S-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does airworthiness mean?
noun
- 1
The state of being airworthy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce airworthiness?
- UK /ˈɛː.wəː.ði.nɪs/
- US /ˈɛrwəɹðinɪs/
Airworthiness has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-airworthiness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is airworthiness?
Airworthiness appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th 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).
Airworthiness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state of being airworthy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | navigabilité, aeronavigabilité |
| German | Flugtauglichkeit, Flugtüchtigkeit |
| Portuguese | aeronavegabilidade |
| Spanish | aptitud para volar, aeronavegabilidad |
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.