airplane

adj

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The verdict

“airplane” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,953 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,953
frequency rank, Portuguese
4,352
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aeronáutico

Key facts for airplane
PropertyValue
Headwordairplane
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#63,953
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “airplane” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). airplane lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

airplane is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,953 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aeronáutico".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for airplane, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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. The correct Portuguese form is airplane, spelled A-I-R-P-L-A-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    aeronáutico

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "airplane"?
"airplane" is spelled A-I-R-P-L-A-N-E.
What does "airplane" mean?
As an adjective, "airplane" means: aeronáutico
What language does "airplane" come from?
"airplane" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “airplane”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-I-R-P-L-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list