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popover

noun

popover is spelled P-O-P-O-V-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, popover means “A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of popover is popovers.

How many letters and syllables are in popover?

Letters7: P-O-P-O-V-E-R
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th 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 popover?

Popover appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 popover?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-popover.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of popover

  • popovers plural

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

What does popover mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USA light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding.

  2. 2

    A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window.

  3. 3

    A kind of versatile wraparound dress.

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

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