stove
/stəʊv/
"stove" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stove” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,128
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stove · stove · English
stove · rank #11,128 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,128
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sticker
Nearest frequency peer: sticker (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “stove”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- starred
starred
88,876 corpus weight
- stationed
stationed
88,875 corpus weight
- sticker
sticker
88,874 corpus weight
- stove
stove
88,873 corpus weight
- tactic
tactic
88,871 corpus weight
- TB
TB
88,870 corpus weight
What this shows “stove” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stove |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /stəʊv/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stove”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around stove (IPA /stəʊv/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,128 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stove, with forms such as "sotve", "sstove", and "stoev". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stow", "style", "swore", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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, an… The correct English form is stove, spelled S-T-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- 2A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- 3A stovetop, with hotplates.
- 4A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- 5A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, ther…
We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
Etymology
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”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)). Doublet of stufa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotve
- sstove
- stoev
- stovve
- sttove
- stvoe
- tsove
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stove - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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