avow

Other forms of avow

past tense

avowed·

present participle

avowing·

third person

avows·

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 avow

What does avow mean?

avow means "to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avow?

avow has 2 syllables: a-vow. The stress falls on "vow". In IPA it is /əˈvaʊ/.

What is another word for avow?

Close synonyms include affirm, verify, assert, aver, swan. 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.

What is the opposite of avow?

The recorded antonyms are disavow.

Is avow a common word?

avow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with avow?

2 words rhyme with avow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.