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prebuilt

adjective, noun, verb

prebuilt is spelled P-R-E-B-U-I-L-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, prebuilt means “Built in advance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in prebuilt?

Letters8: P-R-E-B-U-I-L-T
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th 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 prebuilt?

Prebuilt appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 prebuilt

  • prebuilts plural

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

What does prebuilt mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Built in advance.

noun

  1. 1

    Something assembled before it is sold.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of prebuild (a form of prebuild)

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

Prebuilt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense built in advance:

LanguageWords
Frenchpréconstruit, préfabriqué

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 prebuilt come from?

From pre- + built.

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

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