bentwood
bent·wood/ˈbɛntwʊd/noun
bentwood is a noun meaning “Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-T-W-O-O-D and has 2 syllables (bent·wood), and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bentwood is bentwoods.
What does bentwood mean?
noun
- 1
Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).
- 2
An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bentwood?
- US /ˈbɛntwʊd/
Bentwood has 2 syllables, split bent·wood in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-bentwood.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bentwood
- bentwoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bentwood?
Bentwood appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Bentwood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wood that has been made pliable and bent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Bugholz |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bentwood come from?
From bent + wood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).