# kiln

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɪln/ · frequency rank #25,113

## Definitions
1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

## Etymology
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).
Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.

## Easily confused with
- **KL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kl)
- **Kim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kim)
- **kit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kit)
- **kin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kin)
- **kun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kun)
- **kip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kip)
- **KLM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-klm)
- **kind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kind)
- **king** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-king)
- **kiss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kiss)
- **Kyle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kyle)
- **kirk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kirk)
- **kits** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kits)
- **kite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kite)
- **kiwi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kiwi)
- **kink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kink)
- **Kira** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kira)
- **Klan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-klan)
- **kilo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kilo)
- **Kwon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kiln-vs-kwon)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ikln`, `killn`, `kilnn`, `kinl`, `kkiln`, `klin`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kiln