cauter
noun
cauter is spelled C-A-U-T-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cauter means “A hot iron for searing or cauterizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cauter is cauters.
How many letters and syllables are in cauter?
| Letters | 6: C-A-U-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 cauter?
Cauter appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
What rhymes with cauter?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cauter.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: curate.
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 cauter
- cauters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cauter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cauter come from?
From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).