spile
/spaɪl/noun, verb
spile is spelled S-P-I-L-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spile means “A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spile is spiles.
How many letters and syllables are in spile?
| Letters | 5: S-P-I-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is spile?
Spile appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 spile?
- /spaɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spile.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with spile?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as spile.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: piles, spiel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of spile
- spiles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- spiling participle, present
- spiled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spile mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA splinter.
- 2
A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
- 3
USA spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
- 4
A pile; a post or girder.
verb
- 1
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
- 2
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
- 3
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
- 4
To support by means of spiles.
- 5
To drive piles into.
- 6
USspoil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does spile come from?
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile (“splinter, peg”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spīlaz (“splinter, peg”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“prickle, pointed stick”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spyl, German Speil (“chip, splinter, gore, wedge”), Danish spile, Dutch spijl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).