condenser
/ˈkʰəndɛnsɚ/noun
condenser is spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is condensor: about 540 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Condenser is a noun meaning “A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or…”. The plural of condenser is condensers.
How many letters and syllables are in condenser?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,504th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, condensor, about 540 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 condenser?
Condenser is spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for condenser 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 condenser?
Condenser appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th 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 condenser?
- US /ˈkʰəndɛnsɚ/
Condenser has 3 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)-Vealhurl-condenser.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of condenser
- condensers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does condenser mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
- 2
A capacitor.
- 3
A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
- 4
A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Condenser in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device designed to condense a gas into a liquid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | condenseur |
| German | Kondensator |
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 condenser come from?
From condense + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).