haven't
/ˈhæv.n̩t/verb
haven't is spelled H-A-V-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is havent: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Haven't is a verb meaning “have not (negative form of have)”.
How many letters and syllables are in haven't?
| Letters | 6: H-A-V-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 129 times per million words; the 810th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, havent, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell haven't?
Haven't is spelled H-A-V-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for haven't in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is haven't?
Haven't appears 129 times per million words in written English, the 810th 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't?
- /ˈhæv.n̩t/
Haven't 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't.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does haven't mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
have not (negative form of have)
You've a bad back again, haven't you? - No, actually I haven't.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does haven't come from?
From have + -n't.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).