heater
/ˈhitɚ/noun
heater is spelled H-E-A-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, heater means “A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of heater is heaters.
How many letters and syllables are in heater?
| Letters | 6: H-E-A-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 13,897th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 heater?
Heater appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th 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 heater?
- US /ˈhitɚ/
- UK /ˈhiːtə/
- /ˈhiːtɐ/
Heater has 2 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: En-us-heater.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with heater?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as heater from its last stressed vowel (/itəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: aether, reheat.
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 heater
- heaters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does heater mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
- 2
A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
- 3
datedslangA handgun.
The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
- 4
slangA fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
Jones threw a heater under his chin.
- 5
slangAn extended winning streak.
Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
- 6
A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
- 7
A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
- 8
slangSynonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Heater in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | radiateur , calibre, gun, pétard |
| German | Heizgerät, Heizapparat |
| Portuguese | aquecedor |
| Spanish | calefactor, jíter, heater |
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 heater come from?
From heat + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).