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tiler

5 letters · 5 distinct letters

  1. noun

    a worker who lays tile

Word history

Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + er.

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