taxiway
noun
taxiway is a noun meaning “A road or path within an airport designated for the taxiing of aircraft connecting the runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-X-I-W-A-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taxiway is taxiways.
What does taxiway mean?
noun
- 1
A road or path within an airport designated for the taxiing of aircraft connecting the runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce taxiway?
Taxiway 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 taxiway
- taxiways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is taxiway?
Taxiway appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).
Taxiway in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense road or path on an airport for taxiing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Rollbahn, Rollfeld, Rollweg |
| Spanish | calle de rodaje, pista de rodaje |
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 taxiway come from?
From taxi + way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).