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furler

noun

furler is a noun meaning “A person or device that furls a flag, a sail, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-L-E-R, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furler is furlers.

What does furler mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person or device that furls a flag, a sail, etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of furler

  • furlers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is furler?

Furler appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 furler come from?

From furl + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).