feedwater
noun
feedwater is a noun meaning “Water added to a boiler to replace that lost during operation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-E-D-W-A-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feedwater is feedwaters.
What does feedwater mean?
noun
- 1
Water added to a boiler to replace that lost during operation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of feedwater
- feedwaters plural
- feed water
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feedwater?
Feedwater appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Where does feedwater come from?
From feed + water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).