airworthy
/ˈɛːˌwəː.ði/adjective
airworthy is an adjective meaning “Meeting standards for safe flight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-R-W-O-R-T-H-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does airworthy mean?
adjective
- 1
Meeting standards for safe flight
An airworthy helicopter...
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce airworthy?
- UK /ˈɛːˌwəː.ði/
Airworthy has 3 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-airworthy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of airworthy
- airworthier comparative
- more airworthy comparative
- airworthiest superlative
- most airworthy superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is airworthy?
Airworthy appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).
Airworthy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense meeting standards for safe flight:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | flugtüchtig, flugtauglich, flugfähig |
| Portuguese | aeronavegável |
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 airworthy come from?
From air + -worthy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).