haven
/ˈheɪvən/noun, verb
haven is spelled H-A-V-E-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, haven means “A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of haven is havens.
How many letters and syllables are in haven?
| Letters | 5: H-A-V-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is haven?
Haven appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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).
How do you pronounce haven?
- /ˈheɪvən/
Haven has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-haven.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of haven
- havens plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- havening participle, present
- havened participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does haven mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
datedA harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
- 2
A safe place.
- 3
A peaceful or tranquil place.
- 4
A certain type of function on sets of vertices in an undirected graph, able to be used by an evader to win a pursuit-evasion game on the graph.
verb
- 1
To put into, or provide with a haven.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Haven in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | port, havre , asile, refuge, abri |
| German | Hafen , Zufluchtsort, Rückzugsort |
| Portuguese | porto , refúgio , santuário |
| Spanish | puerto , asilo, refugio |
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.