aéroport

/\a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,943

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

aéroport is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien. Pronounced \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\. It ranks #1,943 in French word frequency. Often confused with Airport and aéroports.

Key facts for aéroport
PropertyValue
Headwordaéroport
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,943
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aéroport in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aéroport is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,943 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for aéroport, with forms such as "aeroport", "aréoport", and "aéorport". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Airport", "aéroports", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aéroport, spelled A-É-R-O-P-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aeroport,aréoport,aéorport,aérooprt,aéroporrt,aéroportt,aéropotr,aéropport,aéroprot,aérpoort,aérroport,éaroport

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aéroport

Misspelling Variants of "aéroport"

aeroport8aréoport8aéorport8aérooprt8aéroporrt9aéroportt9aéropotr8aéropport9
Misspelling Variants of "aéroport"

Frequency rank: #1,943 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aéroport"?
"aéroport" is spelled A-É-R-O-P-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\.
What does "aéroport" mean?
As a noun, "aéroport" means: Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.
What words are commonly confused with "aéroport"?
"aéroport" is commonly confused with "Airport", "aéroports". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aéroport"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aéroport" is \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aéroport" come from?
"aéroport" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.