OOV
/uːv/noun, prepositional phrase
OOV is spelled O-O-V: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, OOV means “An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of OOV is OOVs.
How many letters and syllables are in OOV?
| Letters | 3: O-O-V |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 OOV?
OOV appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 OOV?
- /uːv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of OOV
- OOVs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does OOV mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.
prepositional phrase
- 1
Initialism of out of vocabulary: describing a term encountered in the input which is not present in a system's dictionary or database of known terms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).