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pourover

noun

pourover is spelled P-O-U-R-O-V-E-R: 8 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, pourover means “A style of coffee prepared by manually pouring hot water over the ground beans, rather than using an automatic drip method” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pourover is pourovers.

How many letters and syllables are in pourover?

Letters8: P-O-U-R-O-V-E-R
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 pourover?

Pourover 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 pourover?

  • 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-pourover.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pourover

  • pourovers plural

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

What does pourover mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A style of coffee prepared by manually pouring hot water over the ground beans, rather than using an automatic drip method.

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

Where does pourover come from?

Deverbal from pour over.

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

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