oiler

Other forms of oiler

plural

oilers·

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 oiler

What does oiler mean?

oiler means "a worker who oils engines or machinery". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oiler?

oiler has 2 syllables: oi-ler. The stress falls on "oi". In IPA it is /ˈɔɪlɚ/.

What is another word for oiler?

Close synonyms include oil well, oil tanker, tanker, tank ship. 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 oiler a common word?

oiler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 oiler?

1 word rhymes with oiler. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.