boilerplate

Questions about boilerplate

What does boilerplate mean?

boilerplate means "standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boilerplate?

boilerplate has 3 syllables: boi-ler-plate. The stress falls on "boi". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɪlɚˌpleɪt/.

Is boilerplate a common word?

boilerplate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with boilerplate?

7 words rhyme with boilerplate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.