oven
/ˈʌ.vn̩/noun, verb
oven is spelled O-V-E-N: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, oven means “A chamber used for baking or heating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of oven is ovens.
How many letters and syllables are in oven?
| Letters | 4: O-V-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th 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 oven?
Oven appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 oven?
- US /ˈʌ.vn̩/
- US /ˈʌv.ən/
Oven 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-oven.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of oven
- ovens plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- ovening participle, present
- ovened participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does oven mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A chamber used for baking or heating.
- 2
colloquialA very hot place.
verb
- 1
colloquialinformalTo cook in an oven.
I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Oven in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chamber used for baking or heating:
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 oven come from?
From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).