aileron
Portuguese, noun
aileron is spelled A-I-L-E-R-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 99,585th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aileron is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of ailerão” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “duas abas móveis nas asas das aeronaves, que servem para controlar o movimento de rolamento do corpo desta”.
What does aileron mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of ailerão
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. duas abas móveis nas asas das aeronaves, que servem para controlar o movimento de rolamento do corpo desta
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aileron
- ailerons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aileron in Portuguese?
aileron appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).