distillery
/dɪˈstɪləɹi/noun
distillery is spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-E-R-Y: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, distillery means “A place where distillation takes place, especially the distillation of alcoholic spirits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of distillery is distilleries.
How many letters and syllables are in distillery?
| Letters | 10: D-I-S-T-I-L-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is distillery?
Distillery appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 distillery?
- UK /dɪˈstɪləɹi/
Distillery 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)-Vealhurl-distillery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with distillery?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as distillery from its last stressed vowel (/ɪləɹi/, British pronunciation):
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 distillery
- distilleries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does distillery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A place where distillation takes place, especially the distillation of alcoholic spirits.
Near-synonym: stillhouse
- 2
A company that distills alcohol.
- 3
The process of distilling alcohol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Distillery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a place where distillation takes place:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | distillerie |
| German | Branntweinbrennerei, Brennerei, Destillerie, Destille, Schnapsbrennerei, Whiskybrennerei |
| Portuguese | destilaria |
| Spanish | destilería |
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 distillery come from?
From distill + -ery (“place of”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).