autogyro
noun
autogyro is a noun meaning “An aircraft in which lift is provided by unpowered rotating wings and thrust is provided by a conventional propeller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-G-Y-R-O, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autogyro is autogyros.
What does autogyro mean?
noun
- 1
An aircraft in which lift is provided by unpowered rotating wings and thrust is provided by a conventional propeller.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autogyro
- autogyros plural
- autogiro
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autogyro?
Autogyro appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Autogyro in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense aircraft with unpowered rotating wings:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | autogire |
| German | Tragschrauber, Drehflügelflugzeug |
| Spanish | autogiro |
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 autogyro come from?
From auto- and gyro-, from latinized forms of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) and γῦρος (gûros, “circle, gyre”), a variant of earlier Spanish autogiro.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).