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OAV

noun

OAV is spelled O-A-V: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, OAV means “Initialism of original animation video, a direct-to-video Japanese anime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of OAV is OAVs.

How many letters and syllables are in OAV?

Letters3: O-A-V
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is OAV?

OAV appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).

Forms of OAV

  • OAVs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does OAV mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of original animation video, a direct-to-video Japanese anime.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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