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muzzleloader

noun

muzzleloader is spelled M-U-Z-Z-L-E-L-O-A-D-E-R: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, muzzleloader means “A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the end that discharges the projectile (the muzzle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of muzzleloader is muzzleloaders.

How many letters and syllables are in muzzleloader?

Letters12: M-U-Z-Z-L-E-L-O-A-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd 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 muzzleloader?

Muzzleloader appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 muzzleloader

  • muzzleloaders plural

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

What does muzzleloader mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the end that discharges the projectile (the muzzle).

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

How do you abbreviate muzzleloader?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of muzzleloader: ML.

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

Muzzleloader in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense type of firearm:

LanguageWords
GermanVorderlader, Vorderladergewehr
Spanishcañón de avancarga

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 muzzleloader come from?

From muzzle + loader.

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

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