Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sven

/svˈɛn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: sven
IPA: /svˈɛn/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A male given name from Swedish.

Example Sentences

"“For many cities, the urban layout allows similar urban re-design strategies, even if the city is not a perfect model of the grid-like layout,” says Sven Eggimann, a researcher focusing on sustainable urban planning at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf, who conducted the analysis. […] Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world."

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

Rhymes With

when then again men ten ben en pen gen cnn ken den

Questions

How do you pronounce sven?: The recorded pronunciation is /svˈɛn/.
What does sven mean?: A male given name from Swedish.
Where does sven come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

How to pronounce sven

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