Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot water heater

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: hot wa-ter heater
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An apparatus, usually fuel-burning, electric or solar-powered, in which water is heated to be used directly as domestic hot water or process hot water (but not for supplying space heating, calorifiers etc, for which a boiler or furnace is used).

Example Sentences

"This [warm-air heated] house has a supplemental electric hot water heater and an oil furnace."
"This system has an insulated 5-gallon electric hot water heater directly under the sink."
"It's a good idea to insulate at least the first ten feet of the hot- and cold-water lines coming out of the hot water heater."
"A hot water heater is a potable water boiler in which the operating pressure does not exceed 160 psi and/or temperature does not exceed 210 °F."

Inflected Forms

hot water heaters (plural) hot-water heater (alternative) hotwater heater (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

boiler geyser

Questions

What does hot water heater mean?: An apparatus, usually fuel-burning, electric or solar-powered, in which water is heated to be used directly as domestic hot water or process hot water (but not for supplying space heating, calorifiers etc, for which a boiler or furnace is used).

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