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aquanaut

noun

aquanaut is a noun meaning “An underwater explorer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Q-U-A-N-A-U-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aquanaut is aquanauts.

What does aquanaut mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An underwater explorer.

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

How do you pronounce aquanaut?

    Aquanaut 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).

    Forms of aquanaut

    • aquanauts plural

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

    How common is aquanaut?

    Aquanaut appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

    Aquanaut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense underwater explorer:

    LanguageWords
    Portugueseaquanauta
    Spanishacuanauta

    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 aquanaut come from?

    From aqua- + -naut.

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