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pilothouse

noun

pilothouse is spelled P-I-L-O-T-H-O-U-S-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pilothouse means “A wheelhouse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pilothouse is pilothouses.

How many letters and syllables are in pilothouse?

Letters10: P-I-L-O-T-H-O-U-S-E
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 136,649th 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 pilothouse?

Pilothouse appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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 pilothouse

  • pilothouses plural

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

What does pilothouse mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A wheelhouse.

  2. 2

    A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.

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

Where does pilothouse come from?

From pilot + house.

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

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