aerially

1. 1.

   by means of aircraft

   “the survey was carried out aerially”

Questions about aerially

What does aerially mean?

aerially means "by means of aircraft".

How many syllables are in aerially?

aerially has 5 syllables and divides as a-e-ri-al-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is aerially a common word?

aerially is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.