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gaoler

noun

gaoler is a noun meaning “Dated spelling of jailer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-O-L-E-R, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gaoler is gaolers.

What does gaoler mean?

noun

  1. 1

    CommonwealthDated spelling of jailer.

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

How do you pronounce gaoler?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gaoler.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of gaoler

  • gaolers plural

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

How common is gaoler?

Gaoler appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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 gaoler come from?

By surface analysis, gaol + -er.

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