boilermaker
/ˈbɔɪləɹmeɪkɚ/
"boilermaker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boilermaker” is uncommon English (frequency #94,613 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,613
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boilermaker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɔɪləɹmeɪkɚ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boilermaker” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
boilermaker is uncommon English at frequency #94,613 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɔɪləɹmeɪkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for boilermaker in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From boiler + maker. The correct English form is boilermaker, spelled B-O-I-L-E-R-M-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
- 2A whiskey with a beer chaser.
Etymology
From boiler + maker.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “boilermaker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-I-L-E-R-M-A-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.