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heatseeker

noun

heatseeker is spelled H-E-A-T-S-E-E-K-E-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, heatseeker means “A heat-seeking missile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of heatseeker is heatseekers.

How many letters and syllables are in heatseeker?

Letters10: H-E-A-T-S-E-E-K-E-R
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is heatseeker?

Heatseeker appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Forms of heatseeker

  • heatseekers plural

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

What does heatseeker mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A heat-seeking missile.

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

Where does heatseeker come from?

From heat + seeker.

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

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