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tunneler

noun

tunneler is spelled T-U-N-N-E-L-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tunneler means “Someone or something that tunnels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tunneler is tunnelers.

How many letters and syllables are in tunneler?

Letters8: T-U-N-N-E-L-E-R
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd 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 tunneler?

Tunneler appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 tunneler

  • tunnelers plural
  • tunneller

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

What does tunneler mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Someone or something that tunnels.

    Near-synonym: burrower

  2. 2

    A device or machine for making tunnels.

    Near-synonyms: TBM, tunnel boring machine

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

Where does tunneler come from?

From tunnel + -er.

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

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