heater

Other forms of heater

plural

heaters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heater

What does heater mean?

heater means "device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heater?

heater has 2 syllables: hea-ter. The stress falls on "hea". In IPA it is /ˈhitɚ/.

What is another word for heater?

Close synonyms include warmer, fastball, smoke, hummer, bullet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heater a common word?

heater is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.