Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

range hood

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables
range -hood
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

range hoods (plural) rangehood (alternative)

Synonyms

cooker hood cooking canopy electric chimney exhaust hood extraction hood extractor fan extractor hood fume extractor kitchen hood rangehood stove hood ventilation hood

Questions

What does range hood mean?
An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.

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