stove

Other forms of stove

plural

stoves·

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 stove

What does stove mean?

stove means "a kitchen appliance used for cooking food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stove?

stove has 1 syllable: stove. In IPA it is /ˈstoʊv/.

What is another word for stove?

Close synonyms include kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove. 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 stove a common word?

stove is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.