haven

Other forms of haven

plural

havens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about haven

What does haven mean?

haven means "a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haven?

haven has 2 syllables: ha-ven. The stress falls on "ha". In IPA it is /ˈheɪvən/.

What is another word for haven?

Close synonyms include oasis, seaport, harbor, harbour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haven a common word?

haven is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.