hovercraft
French, noun/ɔ.vɛʁ.kʁaft/
hovercraft is spelled H-O-V-E-R-C-R-A-F-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hovercraft is a French masculine noun meaning “hovercraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aéroglisseur”.
What does hovercraft mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehovercraft
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aéroglisseur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hovercraft
- hovercrafts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hovercraft?
- /ɔ.vɛʁ.kʁaft/
- \ɔ.vœʁ.kʁaft\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hovercraft in French?
hovercraft appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).