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 and divides as a-vi-ate 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.

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.