oftentimes

/ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/adverb

oftentimes is spelled O-F-T-E-N-T-I-M-E-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, oftentimes means “Frequently; often” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in oftentimes?

Letters	10: O-F-T-E-N-T-I-M-E-S
Syllables	3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st 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 oftentimes?

Oftentimes appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce oftentimes?

UK /ˈɒf.ənˌtaɪmz/
UK /ˈɒf.tənˌtaɪmz/
US /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/

Oftentimes has 3 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-oftentimes.ogg, En-au-oftentimes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does oftentimes mean?

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

adverb

1
USFrequently; often.

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

Oftentimes in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	souventesfois, souventefois, souvent (frequently)
German	oftmals, oft (frequently)
Spanish	frecuentemente (frequently), reiteradamente, repetidamente (repeatedly)

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 oftentimes come from?

Inherited from Middle English oftentymes. By surface analysis, oftentime + -s. Compare oftentime. Compare also German oftmals, Middle French souventesfois.