aviate

Other forms of aviate

past tense

aviated·

present participle

aviating·

third person

aviates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aviate

What does aviate mean?

aviate means "operate an airplane".

How many syllables are in aviate?

aviate has 3 syllables: a-vi-ate. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for aviate?

Close synonyms include fly, pilot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aviate a common word?

aviate 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.