Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oden

/ˈoʊdən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables: oden
IPA: /ˈoʊdən/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Japanese one pot winter dish, of varying ingredients.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The arrival of cooler weather means konbini counters will soon be offering piping hot oden – a kind of Japanese stew."

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese おでん.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: おでん

Usage

Uncountable

Rhymes With

snowden odin bowden boden snowdon roden lowden rhoden soden rowden loden sowden

Questions

How do you pronounce oden?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈoʊdən/.
What does oden mean?: A Japanese one pot winter dish, of varying ingredients.
Where does oden come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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