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boiler

boil·er/ˈbɔɪlɚ/noun

boiler is spelled B-O-I-L-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (boil·er). It appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boiler means “A person who boils something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boiler is boilers.

How many letters and syllables are in boiler?

Letters6: B-O-I-L-E-R
Syllables2: boil·er
In writing5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is boiler?

Boiler appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce boiler?

  • UK /ˈbɔɪlə/
  • US /ˈbɔɪlɚ/

Boiler has 2 syllables, split boil·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-boiler.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with boiler?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as boiler from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪləɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: libero.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of boiler

  • boilers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does boiler mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person who boils something.

  2. 2

    A steam boiler.

  3. 3

    An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.

  4. 4

    A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.

  5. 5

    A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.

  6. 6

    A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.

  7. 7

    A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.

  8. 8

    AustraliaUKderogatoryslangAn old woman.

  9. 9

    informalrareBoilerplate.

    Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.

noun

as Boiler
  1. 1

    Ellipsis of Brompton boiler.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Boiler in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchaudière (device for heating circulating water), chauffe-eau (hot water heater with storage)
GermanKessel, Boiler (device for heating circulating water)
Portuguesecaldeira (device for heating circulating water)
Spanishcaldera, calentador, bóiler, boiler (device for heating circulating water)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does boiler come from?

From boil + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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