brow

Other forms of brow

plural

brows·

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 brow

What does brow mean?

brow means "the part of the face above the eyes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brow?

brow has 1 syllable: brow. In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊ/.

What is another word for brow?

Close synonyms include forehead, eyebrow, supercilium, hilltop. 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 brow a common word?

brow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 brow?

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