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hotplate

noun

hotplate is spelled H-O-T-P-L-A-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hotplate means “A semiportable stove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hotplate is hotplates.

How many letters and syllables are in hotplate?

Letters8: H-O-T-P-L-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th 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 hotplate?

Hotplate appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 hotplate?

  • US

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

Forms of hotplate

  • hotplates plural
  • hot-plate
  • hot plate

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

What does hotplate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A semiportable stove.

  2. 2

    The element of a stove.

  3. 3

    A low-powered heating device for keeping food warm.

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

Hotplate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchplaque de cuisson, plaque chauffante (semi-portable stove)
GermanKochplatte, Hotplate (semi-portable stove), Herdplatte (the element of a stove), Warmhalteplatte (low-powered heating device)
Spanishhornillo, placa eléctrica, placa calefactora, infiernillo, cocinilla, cocinita (semi-portable stove)

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 hotplate come from?

From hot + plate.

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

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