fusebox
noun
fusebox is a noun meaning “A small distribution board containing the fuses or circuit breakers for a domestic electricity power supply” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-E-B-O-X, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fusebox is fuseboxes.
What does fusebox mean?
noun
- 1
A small distribution board containing the fuses or circuit breakers for a domestic electricity power supply.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fusebox
- fuseboxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fusebox?
Fusebox appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Fusebox in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense compartment containing fuses:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Sicherungskasten |
| Portuguese | caixa de fusíveis |
| Spanish | caja de fusibles |
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 fusebox come from?
From fuse + box.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).