cows

Other forms of cows

plural

cowses·

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 cows

What does cows mean?

cows means "domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age".

How many syllables are in cows?

cows has 1 syllable: cows. In IPA it is /ˈkaʊz/.

What is another word for cows?

Close synonyms include cattle, kine, oxen, Bos taurus. 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 cows a common word?

cows is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.