wove

UK /wəʊv/adjective, verb

wove is spelled W-O-V-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wove means “made on a mould of closely woven wire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wove?

Letters	4: W-O-V-E
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	mauve

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 wove?

Wove appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form in the list.

wove0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce wove?

UK /wəʊv/
UK /woʊv/

Wove 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-wove.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-wove.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-wove.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with wove?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wove from its last stressed vowel (/əʊv/, British pronunciation):

mauve

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).

What does wove mean?

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

adjective

1
made on a mould of closely woven wire

verb

1
simple past of weave (a form of weave)
She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.
2
colloquialnonstandardpast participle of weave (a form of weave)

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