Airplane and aeroplane are both English terms.
Airplane is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American English (en-US
) while aeroplane is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (en-GB
). Of course, there are other varieties of English that may use one versus the other.
Below, we provide some examples of when to use airplane or aeroplane with sample sentences.
(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)