ramjet
noun
ramjet is a noun meaning “A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-M-J-E-T, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ramjet is ramjets.
What does ramjet mean?
noun
- 1
A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ramjet
- ramjets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ramjet?
Ramjet appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).
Ramjet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ramjet engine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | statoréacteur |
| German | Staustrahltriebwerk |
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 ramjet come from?
From ram + jet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).