autothrottle
/ˈɔ.toʊˌθɹɔ.təl/noun
autothrottle is a noun meaning “An automatic throttle, allowing a pilot to control the power setting of an aircraft's engines by specifying a desired flight characteristic, rather…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-T-H-R-O-T-T-L-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autothrottle is autothrottles.
What does autothrottle mean?
noun
- 1
An automatic throttle, allowing a pilot to control the power setting of an aircraft's engines by specifying a desired flight characteristic, rather than manually controlling fuel flow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce autothrottle?
- US /ˈɔ.toʊˌθɹɔ.təl/
- US [ˈɔ.ɾoʊˌθɹɔ.ɾəl]
Autothrottle has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autothrottle
- autothrottles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autothrottle?
Autothrottle appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Where does autothrottle come from?
From auto- + throttle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).