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stove

/stoʊv/noun, verb

stove is spelled S-T-O-V-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stove means “A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stove is stoves.

How many letters and syllables are in stove?

Letters5: S-T-O-V-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is stove?

Stove appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 stove?

  • UK /stəʊv/
  • US /stoʊv/
  • /sʈəʋ/

Stove has one syllable (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-stove.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stove?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stove from its last stressed vowel (/oʊv/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of stove

  • stoves plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stoving participle, present
  • stoved participle, past

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

What does stove mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

  2. 2

    A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

  3. 3

    A stovetop, with hotplates.

  4. 4

    UKA hothouse (heated greenhouse).

  5. 5

    datedA house or room artificially warmed or heated.

    April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

verb

  1. 1

    To heat or dry, as in a stove.

    to stove feathers

  2. 2

    To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

    to stove orange trees

  3. 3

    To jam; to sprain.

    to stove a finger

  4. 4

    simple past and past participle of stave (a form of stave)

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

Stove in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpoêle (heater), fourneau, cuisinière (device for heating food)
GermanOfen (heater), Herd, Kochherd (device for heating food)
Portugueseaquecedor, fogão (heater)
Spanishestufa, calentador (heater), cocina, hornillo (device for heating food)

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 stove come from?

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).

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

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