carburetor
/ˈkɑɹb(j)əˌɹeɪtɚ/noun
carburetor is spelled C-A-R-B-U-R-E-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is carburator: about 530 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Carburetor is a noun meaning “A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition”. The plural of carburetor is carburetors.
How many letters and syllables are in carburetor?
| Letters | 10: C-A-R-B-U-R-E-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, carburator, about 530 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell carburetor?
Carburetor is spelled C-A-R-B-U-R-E-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for carburetor in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is carburetor?
Carburetor appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 carburetor?
- UK /ˈkɑːb(j)əˌɹɛtə/
- US /ˈkɑɹb(j)əˌɹeɪtɚ/
Carburetor has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-carburetor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of carburetor
- carburetors plural
- carburetter UK
- carburettor UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carburetor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSA device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition.
- 2
obsoleteA device for enhancing illuminating gas by mixing in carbon-rich fuel.
Second, the employment of a current of air between the carburettor and the tube leading to the burner, is described. The Mechanics' Magazine, July 25, 1862.
- 3
slangA water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate carburetor?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of carburetor: carb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Carburetor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a device in an internal combustion engine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | carburateur |
| German | Vergaser |
| Portuguese | carburador |
| Spanish | carburador |
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 carburetor come from?
Attested from 1862, from carburet (“enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel”) + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).